ISSN:
1573-0697
Keywords:
business ethics
;
cognition and organization culture
;
control
;
corporate crimes
;
Japanese management
;
norm
;
phenomenology
;
qualitative methods
;
scandals
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Philosophy
,
Economics
Notes:
Abstract This study introduced a phenomenological approach to the study of the companies that committed corporate crimes. The author first developed the epistemology of normative control which is based on the philosophical ground of phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, ethnomethodology, Habermas's normative theories, and Foucault's normalizing discourse in the context of organizations. He, then, showed the procedures for conducting a qualitative and phenomenological empirical case study of an aggressive Japanese company whose name appeared in the media for its scandal in Tokyo. The inquiry revealed the generative mechanism of normative control and the patterns of constructing social reality of workplaces in a Japanese company.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006266623545
