Abstract
Why do high-status, eminently respected business executives and managers, earning handsome salaries and benefits, breach rules, violate the law, and engage in “deviant” behavior?1 Seemingly this group of violators has no financial “need” to turn to law-breaking. What then is their motivation? How do they justify their actions and how “conscious” are they of offending?
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Gobert, J., Punch, M. (2007). Because They Can. In: Pontell, H.N., Geis, G. (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8_5
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