Corporate Compliance and Conformity: A Convenience Theory Approach to Executive Deviance - Paperback

by Petter Gottschalk (Author)

This book takes a new approach by turning the problem of control upside down as it focuses on control of executives who find white-collar crime convenient. The bottom-up approach to executive compliance focuses on organizational measures to make white-collar crime less convenient for potential offenders.

Author Biography

Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. Before joining academics, he held several chief executive officer positions in business enterprises. He received his education in Germany (Technical University of Berlin), United States (Dartmouth College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and United Kingdom (Henley Management College). Dr. Gottschalk has published extensively his research on knowledge management, police investigations, fraud examinations, white-collar crime, convenience theory, and corporate investigations.