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On the dynamics of corporate size and illegal activity: An empirical assessment

✍ Scribed by Dan R. Dalton; Idalene F. Kesner

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 896 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 0167-4544
DOI: 10.1007/bf00383049

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✦ Synopsis

This research, relying on companies continuously listed on the Fortune 500 over a five-year period (n 384), provides an empirical assessment of two hypotheses. Based on 334 violations over the period the results indicate:

(1) gross differences in illegal activity based on corporate size, and (2) similar differences in corporate recidivism also based on size. Discussion includes a number of size related dynamics which may account in part for such results.

There is a distinguished tradition of research in organizational studies which has examined the consequences of firm size. In fact, it has recently been suggested that "of the various structural variables, size is perhaps the most pervasive in terms of

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