Crime and corruption in organizations : why it occurs and what to do about it / edited by Ronald J. Burke, Edward C. Tomlinson and Cary L. Cooper.

Includes index.

Burke (emeritus, organizational behavior, U. of Michigan, UK), Tomlinson (management, John Carroll U., US), and Cooper (organizational psychology and health, Lancaster U., UK) present 12 papers exploring causes and consequences of crime and corruption in organizations. Papers explore the role of greed in motivating corruption, the roots of unethical and illegal behaviors in school behaviors, the role of trust in the prevalence or absence of employee theft, the influence of national cultures on the rationalization of organizational corruption, types of fraud and their impact on organizations, the relationship between organizational ethics and withdrawal behaviors (lateness and absences) among Israeli schoolteachers, sources of academic misconduct and strategies of mitigation, case studies of corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, general discussion of ways to reduce crime and corruption in organizations linked to a case study of the Nigerian oil sector, and the vulnerability of Canada to securities frauds. Distributed in the US by Ashgate.