RT Article
T1 The Political Economy of Organisational Violence in Chinese Industry
A1 Shou, Huisheng
A2 Green, Gary S.
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1588526488
AB "Organisational violence" involves wilful, illegal business behaviour that has the potential to harm workers, consumers, or the environment. We use a combined perspective from the fields of political economy and criminology to examine the incongruously high level of organisational violence among Chinese firms that exists despite robust efforts by the government to put forth regulatory laws that prohibit it. As the explanation for this incongruity, we assert two conditions that synergistically interact in a bidirectional relationship: 1) the complex legal structural barriers to effective enforcement against organisational violence caused by a politically biased and administratively fragmented Chinese political system, and 2) a socially disorganised business environment that does not recursively message the wrongfulness of organisational violence. The analysis rejects not only financial gain as a relevant factor in the commission of organisational violence but also other current pers
CN 301
K1 China
K1 Unternehmen
K1 Korruption
K1 Wirtschaftskriminalität
K1 Verbrechensbekämpfung
K1 Regulierung
K1 Rechtswesen
K1 Justiz
K1 Staatsaufsicht
K1 Soziale Norm
K1 Rechtsnorm
K1 Ostasien
K1 organisational violence
K1 industrial regulation
K1 political structure
K1 Corporate Crime