Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption

Gottschalk, Petter; Hamerton, Christopher

This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of white-collar and corporate crime through detailed examination of the use, affect, and violation of the corporate social license – a concept frequently extended to a license to operate. Whilst discrete aspects of corporate social responsibility have found their way into the discourse on business deviance and crime, no single book to date has provided a detailed exploration of social licence through a criminological lens. Here, using an interdisciplinary focus which includes illustrative case-studies and large-scale original fieldwork, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore European, North American, Asian, and global perspectives to identify, position, and reveal the impact of the social license on contemporary conceptions of white-collar and corporate deviance and crime.  Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption will be of interest to scholars of criminology, law, business management, and sociology along with professionals within allied fields.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-11-03

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031450815

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45079-2

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 408.0