The Institutionalization of Deceptive Sales in Life Insurance : Five Sources of Moral Risk

Interview and ethnographic data are used to show how deceptive sales practices are rife and institutionalized in the life insurance industry. The data are analysed using the concept of moral risk': the paradoxical tendency of the structure and culture of the insurance institution to facilitate...

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Main Author: Ericson, Richard Victor (Author)
Contributors: Doyle, Aaron
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2006, Volume: 46, Issue: 6, Pages: 993-1010
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Keywords:
Ethik
Fehlverhalten
Moral
Versicherungswesen

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