Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption

by Petter Gottschalk and Christopher Hamerton

This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of white-collar and corporate crime through detailed examination of the use, affect, and violation of the corporate social license - a concept frequently extended to a license to operate. Whilst discrete aspects of corporate social responsibility have found their way into the discourse on business deviance and crime, no single book to date has provided a detailed exploration of social licence through a criminological lens. Here, using an interdisciplinary focus which includes illustrative case-studies and large-scale original fieldwork, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore European, North American, Asian, and global perspectives to identify, position, and reveal the impact of the social license on contemporary conceptions of white-collar and corporate deviance and crime. Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption will be of interest to scholars of criminology, law, business management, and sociology along with professionals within allied fields.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031450787
• ISBN13: 9783031450785
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"