Book Review of The Organizational Aspects of Corporate and Organizational Crime

Giorgio Baruchello

University of Akureyri, Iceland

Abstract:

Although popular movies and TV series may typically focus on gangsters and drug lords in the Americas, East Asia and Southern Europe, the most profitable criminal enterprises are to be found in the world of white-collar crime, especially in the realms of corporate business and high finance. The volume hereby reviewed, which combines and republishes a 2018 special issue of the journal Administrative Science, present analysis and discusses conspicuous examples of white-collar criminal activity within corporations and, to a lesser extent, considers ways in which this kind of activity can be countered, if not neutralized. In particular, as the book's title explains, the organizational aspects of this criminal activity are focussed upon, thus showing once and for all that if there are "rotten apples" within an organization, it is because their "barrels" or "orchards" or "larder[s]" are rotten too (2 &77).

Keyword:

Gangsters and drug lord, Administrative Science, White-collar, America