Abstract In the name of combating COVID-19, many countries have enacted laws that restrict citizens’ freedom of movement and freedom to operate businesses. These laws attempt to use the expressive effects of law and legal sanctions to make people conform to legal norms different from...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the insights on how international customer behavior is impacted toward online customer review (OCR) by the mediating effects of social and personal norms in the varied cultural context. The study also investigates how support of peer influence could...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how received word-of-mouth (WOM) influences consumer emotions and, in turn, behavioral attitude and intention. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual model is developed by extending the theory of reasoned action framework to include WOM and...

Purpose – Working towards a broader understanding of information provision by agencies responding to crisis situations, the aim of this paper is to examine mandated information provision on the part of law enforcement to survivors of intimate partner violence at the scene of an emergency...

Examines the involvement of the banking sector in money laundering over the last two decades, in particular the relationship between banks and money laundering when governments’ attitudes vary and change. Describes the design of the research, which uses multiple regression, Chow and dummy...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development and nature of organized crime in the USA over the past 50 years, emphasizing organized crime's corruption and victimization of legitimate businesses and describing law enforcement's efforts to combat organized crime through...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of illegal insider trading enforcement in China by focusing, among other things, on the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission's (CSRC) enforcement actions in the period 1993‐2006. Design/methodology/approach – This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the government efforts in criminalising and combating bank fraud and corruption in China and their policy implications. Design/methodology/approach – An integrated method is used to gather the data for this study, including government...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the state of corruption in Serbia, based on available empirical evidence produced by the penal law‐enforcement agencies themselves. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an analysis of available documents, criminal...

Purpose – This paper has two integrated purposes: it provides a report on a symposium hosted by the Bank of Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in December 2008 dealing with key challenges and directions forward for addressing white‐collar crime; and it ties this material into a...