Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge

Claudia Gabbioneta holds a Chair in Accounting and Management at the School for Business and Society, University of York, UK. Her research interests include professions, organizational wrongdoing, and professional misconduct.Marco Clemente is Professor of Sustainability and Management, Head of the Research Center for Corporate Sustainability at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland. His research interests include business ethics, sustainability, organizational misconduct, and corporate scandals.Royston Greenwood is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include organizational and institutional change from an institutional perspective.

• Foreword; Michael LounsburyIntroduction: Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents; Claudia Gabbioneta, Marco Clemente, and Royston GreenwoodChapter 1. Social Control Agents and the Evolving Definition of Wrongdoing: The Case of the Gray Area around the Mafia; Giulia Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni, and Eero VaaraChapter 2. A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct; Rasmus Pichler, Thomas J. Roulet, and Lionel PaolellaChapter 3. The Influence of Critical Events on the Social Control of Misconduct: Regulatory Enforcement in the European Banking Industry; Timo Fiorito, Richard Hoff, and Michel EhrenhardChapter 4. Scandal as Moral Interaction: A New Perspective on the Publicization of Organizational Misconduct; Julien JourdanChapter 5. Single-Actor Scandal or Multiple-Actor Scandal? A Framework for Studying Scandal Dynamics; Yasir Dewan and Michael JensenChapter 6. Media Framing of a Scandal: The Path to Redemption or the Road to Perdition?; Esther R. Maier and Eve LamargotChapter 7. Conditioned by Upbringing: Executives’ Childhood Social Class and Corporate Crime; Alexandru V. Roman, Ivana Naumovska, and Jerayr HaleblianChapter 8. What about my Occupation? A Multidimensional View of Workplace Identification and Unethical Pro-organizational Behaviour; Trevor Coppins and Johanna WeststarChapter 9. Organizational Wrongdoing, Boundary Work, and Systems of Exclusion: The Case of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal; Laura Fey and John AmisChapter 10. How Street-Level Misconduct Happens: Deploying References to Complex Routines as a Coping Strategy with Detrimental Consequences; Przemysław G. Hensel and Piotr T. MakowskiChapter 11. Keeping the “Men” in Longshoremen: The Origins of Lasting Discrimination against Women in the Longshore Occupation; Meena Andiappan and Lucas DufourChapter 12. Where was Internal Audit? Professional Misconduct and the Wells Fargo Scandal; Elena Antonacopoulou, Regina F. Bento, and Lourdes F. White