Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgement
- Contributors to this Volume
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Re-Orient World History, Social Theory and the Nineteenth Century
- 2 The Unique Complexity of Social Phenomena and the Uses of Social Science Knowledge
- 3 Unlimited Love, Compassion and Forgiveness: Acts of Moral Examplars
- 4 Theoretical Application
- 5 Applied Sociology's Need to Rethink the Tradition: Sociological Theorizing in a Global Framework
- 6 Social Analysis and Social Action
- 7 The Applied Sociologist as Craftsman
- 8 Applied Sociologists: Its Problems and Prospects
- 9 Sociology and its Application in Society: Giving Sociology its ‘Working’ Meaning
- 10 The Evolution of Sociology Back to its Applied Future
- 11 Contemporary Corporate Crime: Theoretical Perspectives, Cases & Consequences
- Index
11 - Contemporary Corporate Crime: Theoretical Perspectives, Cases & Consequences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgement
- Contributors to this Volume
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Re-Orient World History, Social Theory and the Nineteenth Century
- 2 The Unique Complexity of Social Phenomena and the Uses of Social Science Knowledge
- 3 Unlimited Love, Compassion and Forgiveness: Acts of Moral Examplars
- 4 Theoretical Application
- 5 Applied Sociology's Need to Rethink the Tradition: Sociological Theorizing in a Global Framework
- 6 Social Analysis and Social Action
- 7 The Applied Sociologist as Craftsman
- 8 Applied Sociologists: Its Problems and Prospects
- 9 Sociology and its Application in Society: Giving Sociology its ‘Working’ Meaning
- 10 The Evolution of Sociology Back to its Applied Future
- 11 Contemporary Corporate Crime: Theoretical Perspectives, Cases & Consequences
- Index
Summary
The social, political and economic effects of globalization are manifesting themselves in modern society in innumerable ways. A central impetus behind this process is the development and proliferation of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) – large conglomerates that foster increased economic interconnectedness. Multinational corporations, or firms that produce, distribute and market in more than one country, such as Microsoft, wield assets and profits far larger than the Gross Domestic Products (GDP's) of most countries in the world. Moreover, such MNCs are able to influence the politico-economic developments through the goods and services they produce and the wealth at their disposal (O'Neil, 2004). This fact allows MNCs' increasing ability to operate above the laws of their home countries, largely beyond the sight of both the government and the general public. In that regard, Chirayath, Eslinger & DeZolt (2002) assert, ‘…changes in the global economy, toward increased oligopolization, lend themselves to additional opportunities for corporate deviance’. Since all of the implications of corporate deviance as it relates to globalization go beyond the size and scope of this paper, the focus will be limited to the theoretical frameworks which attempt to explain corporate deviance with the use of contemporary cases of corporate deviance and their general outcomes.
Chirayath, et.al (2002) emphasizes that ‘Corporate decisions are made as an extension of private interests for the accumulation and mobility of capital required for increased productivity’.
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- Discourse on Applied SociologyTheoretical Perspectives, pp. 249 - 268Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2007