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The Academy of Management Annals Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010, 53–107

Organizations Gone Wild:

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The Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Organizational Misconduct

HENRICH R. GREVE*

INSEAD Singapore

DONALD PALMER

Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis

JO-ELLEN POZNER

Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

henrich.greve@insead.edu HENRICHGREVE 0000002010 00 2010 & of Management Original Article 1941-6520 Francis Academy Francis 10.1080/19416521003654186 RAMA_A_465927.sgm Annals Taylor and (print)/1941-6067(online)

Abstract Although research on organizational misconduct has a long history and a recent increase in popularity, important questions are still unexplored. We review and critique research on misconduct with an emphasis on organizational causes. In addition to reviewing some active areas of research, we also examine less-trodden areas and make suggestions for their development. We find that the definition of misconduct is often implicit and the role of socialcontrol agents in identifying misconduct has been neglected, suggesting a need for more rigor in how researchers define the boundary of misconduct

*Corresponding author. Email: henrich.greve@insead.edu ISSN 1941-6520 print/ISSN 1941-6067 online © 2010 Academy of Management DOI: 10.1080/19416521003654186 http://www.informaworld.com

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and measure the labeling of misconduct. The spread of misconduct within and among organizations has also seen relatively little attention, as has the spread of the consequences of misconduct, suggesting a need to examine diffusion of misconduct. Finally, organizational misconduct has been an effective context for testing theories on themes such as motivation, control, power, labeling, and status, and will continue to be an important research topic for both its applied value and its theoretical...