The Dark Side of Authority: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Outcomes of Organizational Corruption

• Main Authors: AGUILERA, Ruth V., VADERA, Abhijeet K.
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• 主題: Authority; Bureaucracy; Corruption; Justification; Motivation; Opportunity; Types of organizational corruption; Weber; White-collar crime; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4902; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5901/viewcontent/Dark_side_of_authority_2008.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Corruption poisons corporations in America and around the world, and has devastating consequences for the entire social fabric. In this article, we focus on organizational corruption, described as the abuse of authority for personal benefit, and draw on Weber's three ideal-types of legitimate a...