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Book SynopsisMedia coverage consistently features examples of organizations engaging in unethical or illegal behavior. Given its potential to impact and even damage established institutions, organizational wrongdoing deserves to be closely monitored and more carefully examined. Drawing attention to the theoretical and empirical relevance of this topic, this first instalment in a double volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations consolidates and extends knowledge of this important subject and highlights potential directions for future research.
Exploring the definitions and antecedents of organizational wrongdoing, chapters in this first volume probe the role of social control agents in drawing the line between rightful and wrongful behavior, examine the mechanisms and processes through which instances of wrongdoing turn into a scandal, and consider the antecedents of organizational wrongdoing which have received increasing attention in academic research in recent years but that still deserve further analysis.
Taken individually as well as together, the two volumes that comprise Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge provide a major touchstone for scholars interested in understanding recent developments and exciting new directions in the study of organizational wrongdoing.
Table of ContentsForeword; Michael Lounsbury
Introduction: Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents; Claudia Gabbioneta, Marco Clemente, and Royston Greenwood
Chapter 1. Social Control Agents and the Evolving Definition of Wrongdoing: The Case of the Gray Area around the Mafia; Giulia Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni, and Eero Vaara
Chapter 2. A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct; Rasmus Pichler, Thomas J. Roulet, and Lionel Paolella
Chapter 3. The Influence of Critical Events on the Social Control of Misconduct: Regulatory Enforcement in the European Banking Industry; Timo Fiorito, Richard Hoff, and Michel Ehrenhard
Chapter 4. Scandal as Moral Interaction: A New Perspective on the Publicization of Organizational Misconduct; Julien Jourdan
Chapter 5. Single-Actor Scandal or Multiple-Actor Scandal? A Framework for Studying Scandal Dynamics; Yasir Dewan and Michael Jensen
Chapter 6. Media Framing of a Scandal: The Path to Redemption or the Road to Perdition?; Esther R. Maier and Eve Lamargot
Chapter 7. Conditioned by Upbringing: Executives’ Childhood Social Class and Corporate Crime; Alexandru V. Roman, Ivana Naumovska, and Jerayr Haleblian
Chapter 8. What about my Occupation? A Multidimensional View of Workplace Identification and Unethical Pro-organizational Behaviour; Trevor Coppins and Johanna Weststar
Chapter 9. Organizational Wrongdoing, Boundary Work, and Systems of Exclusion: The Case of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal; Laura Fey and John Amis
Chapter 10. How Street-Level Misconduct Happens: Deploying References to Complex Routines as a Coping Strategy with Detrimental Consequences; Przemysław G. Hensel and Piotr T. Makowski
Chapter 11. Keeping the “Men” in Longshoremen: The Origins of Lasting Discrimination against Women in the Longshore Occupation; Meena Andiappan and Lucas Dufour
Chapter 12. Where was Internal Audit? Professional Misconduct and the Wells Fargo Scandal; Elena Antonacopoulou, Regina F. Bento, and Lourdes F. White
