corporate crime
Boardroom law-breaking
Corporate crime refers to illegal acts committed by businesses or their employees in pursuit of organizational goals—fraud, price-fixing, environmental violations, workplace safety violations, tax evasion.
Distinguished from individual white-collar crime by being done on behalf of the company rather than against it: The documentary exposed decades of corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry.
Also called organizational crime.
- kickbacksIllegal return payments
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- money launderingDisguising criminal proceeds' origins
racketeering · tax evasion · insider trading · antitrust · fiduciary duty · fraud · whistleblowing · whistleblower protection · Enron scandal · graft · Ponzi schemes · securities fraud · bribery · market manipulation · extortion · accounting · oligopoly · creative accounting
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- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- white-collar crimefinancial crimes, securities fraud, insider trading, bank fraud, tax fraud
- white-collar crimessecurities fraud, bank fraud, insider trading, tax fraud, wire fraud
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Public-area criminal activity
petty crime · mugging · burglary · shoplifting · pickpocketing
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Following mandated business standards
corporate responsibility · legal compliance · corporate ethics · business integrity · corporate accountability
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Company's ethical community obligations
social enterprise · charitable giving · community investment · sustainable business · impact investing
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