Deterring white-collar crime

Ivancevich, John M.; Duening, Thomas N.; Gilbert, Jeffrey M.; Konopaske, Robert

doi:10.5465/ame.2003.10025206

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“…Harboring the belief that corruption can be completely curbed without rules and regulations is perhaps naive given the long history of corruption in business and the understanding of the human behavior that cannot be disciplined under a circumstance without any constraint (Ashforth et al 2008). Rules and regulations have been deemed as the core component of anti-corruption strategies, because an organization must implement its mission and vision of anti-corruption policies with the aid of relevant rules and regulations (Klitgaard 1988;Ivancevich et al 2003;Tabish and Jha 2012). A thorough regulation system is usually developed to increase transparency and accountability and to enforce penal codes against corruption, and can thus aid the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 6 "good guys" in controlling unsavory competitors and creating an impartial playing field (Ashforth et al 2008;Misangyi et al 2008).…”

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Investigating the Effectiveness of Response Strategies for Vulnerabilities to Corruption in the Chinese Public Construction Sector

Shan

Chan

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Sci Eng Ethics

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Response strategy is a key for preventing widespread corruption vulnerabilities in the public construction sector. Although several studies have been devoted to this area, the effectiveness of response strategies has seldom been evaluated in China. This study aims to fill this gap by investigating the effectiveness of response strategies for corruption vulnerabilities through a survey in the Chinese public construction sector. Survey data obtained from selected experts involved in the Chinese public construction sector were analyzed by factor analysis and partial least squares-structural equation modeling. Analysis results showed that four response strategies of leadership, rules and regulations, training, and sanctions, only achieved an acceptable level in preventing corruption vulnerabilities in the Chinese public construction sector. This study contributes to knowledge by improving the understanding of the effectiveness of response strategies for corruption vulnerabilities in the public construction sector of developing countries.

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Investigating the Effectiveness of Response Strategies for Vulnerabilities to Corruption in the Chinese Public Construction Sector

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Chan

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Sci Eng Ethics

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“…It resulted in 6876 convictions (78% of the cases). Further, 46% of those convicted were sentenced to prison with an average jail time of 16 months (Ivancevich et al, 2003). These scandals hurt many stakeholders including these convicted managers, other employees, customers, organizations, and the society.…”

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“…In the management and psychology literature, researchers have examined many constructs, such as: unethical behavior (e.g., Jones and Kavanagh, 1996;Trevino and Youngblood, 1990), theft (Greenberg, 1993(Greenberg, , 2002, cyberloafing (Lim, 2002), workplace deviance (Robinson and Bennett, 1995), counterproductive behavior (Cohen-Charash and Spector, 2001), corruption (Luo, 2005), and organizational misbehavior (e.g., Ivancevich et al, 2003;Vardi and Weitz, 2004). Misbehavior at work, for example, may include, but not limited to the following 23 behavioral constructs: ''arson, blackmail, bribery, bullying, cheating, discrimination, dishonesty, espionage, fraud, incivility, intimidation, kickbacks, lying, misinformation, privacy violations, revenge, sabotage, sexual harassment, substance abuse, theft, threats, whistle blowing, and withholding information (concealment)'' (Ivancevich et al, 2005, p. 247).…”

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“…We will focus, specifically, on only a few selected, deliberate, and intentional unethical behaviors in the financial domain that are related to some of the scandals and corruptions reported in the media, or white-collar crime. White-collar crime is defined as crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his/her occupation (Ivancevich et al, 2003). According to the U.S. Attorney's Annual Statistical Report provided by the Department of Justice, federal prosecutors charged 8766 defendants with white-collar crime in 2000.…”

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Attitude Toward and Propensity to Engage in Unethical Behavior: Measurement Invariance across Major among University Students

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This research examines business and psychology students’ attitude toward unethical behavior (measured at Time 1) and their propensity to engage in unethical behavior (measured at Time 1 and at Time 2, 4Â weeks later) using a 15-item Unethical Behavior measure with five Factors: Abuse Resources, Not Whistle Blowing, Theft, Corruption, and Deception. Results suggested that male students had stronger unethical attitudes and had higher propensity to engage in unethical behavior than female students. Attitude at Time 1 predicted Propensity at Time 1 accurately for all five factors (concurrent validity): If students consider it to be unethical, then, they are less likely to engage in that unethical behavior. Attitude at Time 1 predicted only Factor Abuse Resources for Propensity at Time 2. Propensity at Time 1 was significantly related to Propensity at Time 2. Attitude at Time 1, Propensity at Time 1, and Propensity at Time 2 had achieved configural and metric measurement invariance across major (business vs. psychology). Thus, researchers may have confidence in using these measures in future research. Copyright Springer 2006attitude toward unethical behavior, propensity to engage in unethical behavior, measurement invariance, university students, business, psychology,

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“…These have led to a focus on corporate governance. In the past few years a number of instances of corpo rate misconduct, such as the accounting scandals at Enron and Tyco, have come to public attention (Ivancevich, Duening, Gilbert, and Konopaske 2003). These have raised the question of how to govern businesses so as to keep their conduct within the law.…”

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Maintaining the Social Order

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The starting point of most discussions of the law is compliance, since the purpose of creating laws and empowering legal authorities is to establish and maintain social order by regulating public behavior. The issue addressed by Why People Obey the Law is how such compliance can best be achieved. During the past several decades the dominant approach to securing compliance has been through the threat or use of punishment-that is, via deterrence. The use of deterrence was ubiquitous at the time this book was written in the 1980s, and it has remained the dominant approach to maintaining social order into the twenty-first century (Nagin 1998).Deterrence strategies are one example of instrumental strategies, which are based upon the assumption that the primary factors motivating human behavior are incentives and sanctions. In the context of regulation, this vision leads to a de terrence strategy, linking sanctions to rule breaking, while in the organizational literature it leads to a view that performance is enhanced via incentives, with de sired performance linked to the provision of rewards (Tyler and Blader 2000).One argument in favor of using deterrence as an approach to securing com pliance is that it is a strategy that works. Interestingly, as research has accumu lated about the influence of risk assessments on law-related behavior, this gen eral assertion has been widely qualified. Studies suggest that deterrence some times significantly influences law-related behavior, and sometimes does not. In fact, one finding of Why People Obey the Law, a result typical of studies in this area, is that once other factors are accounted for, there is no significant influence of risk-related judgments on compliance with the law. Further, even when risk is found to have an influence, the magnitude of that influence is small. For exam ple, in a review of studies of drug use, MacCoun (1993) estimates that only around 5 percent of the variance in drug-use behavior is explainable through variations in risk estimates.In addition to mixed evidence regarding effectiveness, the widespread use of deterrence approaches has led to serious negative side effects (Tyler 1997a. One such side effect is the dramatic growth in the American prison popula tion, leading the United States to be a world leader in the proportion of its popula tion that is incarcerated. Further, since deterrence policies are directed primarily at the disadvantaged, their use has undermined police-community relations in ur 269

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Deterring white-collar crime

Cited by 41 publications

References 9 publications

Investigating the Effectiveness of Response Strategies for Vulnerabilities to Corruption in the Chinese Public Construction Sector

Investigating the Effectiveness of Response Strategies for Vulnerabilities to Corruption in the Chinese Public Construction Sector

Attitude Toward and Propensity to Engage in Unethical Behavior: Measurement Invariance across Major among University Students

Maintaining the Social Order

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