The organizational reasons for wrongdoing. The case of Italy's Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM).
Many scholars have highlighted the individual, organizational and inter-organizational causes of organizational wrongdoing; others have focused on its (negative) consequences or have analyzed how it can persist and spread between organizations. An underlining assumption shared by many of those studi...
| Publicado en: | Crime, Law & Social Change Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 453 - 473 |
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May2023
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