Corporate Wrongdoing and the Art of the Accusation

‘[R]eaders willing to think outside the box in which contemporary organization theory on wrongdoing is currently trapped will be amply rewarded. “Corporate Wrongdoing” raises fundamental issues that our field has largely ignored.’ —Donald Palmer, ‘Administrative Science Quarterly’

‘Professor Faulkner has amassed a database of over a thousand accusations of economic wrongdoing in corporate USA in the past 20 years, all of which highlight “the market interplay between the culture and structure of transgression” … [H]e presents an eyes-wide-open approach to understanding illegal repertoires of self-interest… that have sway in dealings among corporations, markets and states. These alliances can undermine, attack and even destroy legitimate entrepreneurship in the marketplace. Prof. Faulkner explains much about how we got into this mess we’re in.’ —Ruth Parnell, ‘Nexus’

‘[T]he book has much to offer researchers who want to understand the cultural and network dimensions of accusations of corporate wrongdoing.’ —Harland Prechel, ‘American Journal of Sociology’