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Economic Crime and Organisational Deviance

A Study of Relative Convenience

Peter Gottschalk and Christopher Hamerton

256 pages, figs

ISBN  978-1-80758-122-0 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (December 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-123-7 eBook Not Yet Published


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This is an empirically and conceptually strong book which integrates the insights to criminology, psychology, organizational behaviour and ethics, framing deviance within the organizational structure and cultures. Chander Mohan Gupta, Shoolini University, India

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Within the contemporary business sphere, the avoidance of organisational deviance is closely linked to business practice, reputation, responsibility, and the social licence to operate. This book examines organisational deviance through the lenses of motive, opportunity, and convenience, exploring its relationship to corporate social responsibility and private business self-regulation. It considers how normative pressures shape perceptions of legitimacy and influence efforts to avoid malpractice and corruption. Linking organisational deviance to established models of business legitimacy, ethical practice, and conformance, the book also examines episodes of business illegitimacy, revealing how organisations navigate the boundaries between accepted conduct and deviant behaviour.

Peter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. He took on executive positions in technology enterprises for twenty years before joining academia. He has published extensively on knowledge management, intelligence strategy, police investigations, white-collar crime, and fraud examinations.

Christopher Hamerton is Programme Director in Criminology and Law, at City St Georges, University of London, United Kingdom. He is a Barrister of the Middle Temple, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Linnean Society of London. He is an interdisciplinary and comparative scholar whose research and writing primarily focus on criminological, socio-legal and historical perspectives.

Subject: SociologyPolitical and Economic AnthropologySociologyPolitical and Economic Anthropology


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