Varieties of Responsibility and Organizational Crime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6090359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Braithwaite (0000-0001-8538-2404, Australian National University), Brent Fisse (The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 315-343 |
| Publication date | 1985-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1985.tb00356.x |
| OpenAlex | W2056560470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 52 |
Data from interviews at the head offices of Japanese companies are used to illustrate the highly varied ways in which large organizations hold individuals and subunits responsible for corporate wrongdoing. Noblesse oblige, captain of the ship responsibility, nominated accountability and fault‐based responsibility are identified as important types of individual accountability all of which can be unjust and ineffective when decisionmaking is more or less collective. In the face of immense diversity in varieties of responsibility for organizational crime, different strategies for bringing law and organizational culture into alignment are tentatively evaluated
Accountability · Business · Diversity (politics · Face (sociological concept · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Wrongdoing · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Ethics in Business and Education · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
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White-Collar Crime
Trust and compliance∗
Policing corporate bribery
No Bodies to Kick or Souls to Damn”
Covert Facilitation and Crime
Crimes of Obedience and Conformity in the Workplace
Corporate Crime through Citizens' Eyes
The Institutionalization of Sanctions for Wrongdoing inside Organizations
The Profits of Recognition
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism
The social psychology of organizations
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Corporate cultures
Doing and Deserving
To punish or persuade
The Allocation of responsibility.
The Disputing Process–Law in Ten Societies
Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Forgive and Remember
"No Soul to Damn
Enforced Self-Regulation
The art of Japanese management
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
Administrative behavior
Tva and the Grass Roots
Law as Process
Individual, Collective, and Social Responsibility
Japan as Number One Lessons for America
Crime and Conflict
Where the Law Ends
The Legal System
Bribery and Extortion in World Business
Social Responsibility and the Business Predicament
Roles and Values
The Place of Enterprise Liability in the Control of Corporate Conduct
Rules, Roles and Relations
Pride, Shame and Responsibility
Foundations of the Theory of Organization
Japan
Dictionary of Modern Sociology
Toward a Sociology of Organizational Crime
British Factory-Japanese Factory
White-Collar Crime and Social Structure
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |