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Varieties of Responsibility and Organizational Crime
Author(s) -
BRAITHWAITE JOHN,
FISSE BRENT
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1985.tb00356.x
Subject(s) - accountability , wrongdoing , face (sociological concept) , diversity (politics) , business , public relations , political science , law , sociology , social science
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.