Instances of wrongdoing in and by organizations have featured heavily in news headlines in recent years. Why do organizational participants - employees, managers, senior officials - engage in illegal, unethical, and socially irresponsible behavior? The dominant view of wrongdoing as an abnormal...

These affairs likely received extensive media attention partly because new forms of media (most importantly, forms of media made possible by the expansion of the Internet) were emerging that facilitated the dissemination and amplification of news about misconduct. Regardless, the attention these...

Die gesellschaftlichen Ansprüche an Unternehmen sind in den vergangenen Jahren enorm gestiegen. Ein Fehlverhalten von Unternehmen wird dementsprechend zunehmend kritisch betrachtet und konsequent geahndet. Frederik Meyer entwickelt zur Erklärung dieses Phänomens ein theoretisches Modell mit...