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Starystach, Sebastian and Höly, Kristina (Eds.): The Silence of Organizations: How Organizations Cover up Wrongdoings, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2021. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.592

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06/24/2021

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Sebastian Starystach (Ed.), Kristina Höly (Ed.)

The Silence of Organizations

How Organizations Cover up Wrongdoings

Be it child abuse in the Catholic Church, manipulations of transplant lists or the current Dieselgate cases. Scandals repeatedly shake our trust in organizations. Against the backdrop of the devastation that rule-breaking in and by organizations leaves in our society, it is necessary to address how wrongdoings and crimes are regularly swept under the organizational carpet. To this end, the present anthology brings together contributions of international researchers from various disciplines to explain how organizational wrongdoing can flourish in the shadow of organizational silence despite tightening regulations, and increased efforts of compliance and prosecution.

Dr. Sebastian Starystach is a senior research associate at the Institute for Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science at the Charité Berlin. His research focusses on the sociology of organization, work and professions.

Dr. Kristina Höly is a senior research associate at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology, Heidelberg University. Her research focusses on the sociology of work and organization with an emphasis on organizational deviance.

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Table of Contents
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Frontmatter
Contents
5-6
Kristina Höly, Sebastian Starystach, Ragna Heyne
Introduction
7-13
Section I: Theoretical Framework
Michael Knoll
Silence in Organizations – What We Need to Know, What We Know, and What We Don't Know
17-43
Markus Pohlmann
The Silence of Organizations – The Difficulties of Organizations to Detect and Unveil Capital Crimes
45-68
Kristina Höly, Sebastian Starystach
Silence and Deviance in Organizations
69-84
Section II: Studies of Silence in Organizations
Bastian Kückelhaus, Iris Kranefeld, Gerhard Blickle
Planful Machiavellians at Work: Perceived Career Potential and Actual Counterproductive Work Behavior
87-103
Steve Conway, Louise Westmarland
The Blue Wall of Silence: Police Integrity and Corruption
105-132
Ajay K. Mehra
Party and Election Campaign Financing in India. A Quest for Legal Limits amid Illegal Reach
133-156
Dieter Dölling
Sexual Abuse of Minors in the German Catholic Church
157-169
Ilse Hartmann-Tews
Gender-based Violence and Organizational Silence in Voluntary Sports Organizations
171-194
Section III: Perspectives from Organizational Practitioners
Markus Jüttner
Corporate Compliance and Business Ethics between Claim and Reality — Why Academic-Bureaucratic Compliance Programs Fail
197-226
Martin Zeier
The Silence of Organizations - The Transplant-Allocation Scandal
227-236

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