Suggested Search Terms
Suggested Search Terms:
- Competition, Unfair
- Commercial crimes
- Corporations - Corrupt practices
- Embezzelment
- Employee crimes
- Employee theft
- Fraud
- Money laundering
- Securities fraud
- White collar crimes
Recommended Books
Corporate Bodies and Guilty MindsCall Number: KF 9236.5 .L36 2006
Corruption and Reform: Lesson's From America's Economic HistoryCall Number: HV 6783 .C784 2006Available at Downcity Lilbrary.
Encyclopedia of White-Collar CrimeCall Number: Ref HV 6768 .E65 2007Available at Downcity Library. Must use in Library.
State-Corporate CrimeCall Number: HV 6769 .S72 2006Available at Downcity Library.
Articles
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)Company profiles, SWOT analyses (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) where available, industry profiles, stocks & investment info., management-related articles, Harvard Business Review case studies and streaming videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.
The resources below will assist you in researching a variety of specific unethical activities which are practiced in the business world.
- Emerald Management 120Management-related articles in various fields including Accounting, Education, Food Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Library Services & Information Management, Marketing, Nutrition, and Professional Development. CHECK-OFF "Only content I have access to" for full-text articles and book chapters.
- General Business File ASAP (Gale)Selective, full-text business and management-related articles. This is a subset of the larger database Business & Company Resource Center.
- LexisNexisFull-text articles from over 6,000 newspapers/magazines, national and international. Updated daily. Best resource for up-to-date business news.
Other Useful Resources
- Financial Scandals: A Guide with Links to Information SourcesLinks to a wide variety of articles/news about financial scandals, including banks, investment fraud, money-laundering and more. Many are recent, but there is also information on famous scandals of the past.
The sites linked below are concerned with monitoring and exposing corrupt business practices. They also offer information on exisiting laws and other remedies which are aimed at preventing unethical and illegal business behavior.
- ScambustersThis consumer-oriented site provides a number of antii-fraud and consumer protection links to combat all types of fraud.
- Securities Class Action ClearinghouseSponsored by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research. Traces fililngs/complaints about securities fraud (over 41,000 since 1996). Best place to obtain this type of information from one source.
- White Collar Crime (FBI)Discusses and analyzes categories of white-collar crime and the FBI's initiatives/programs for dealing with them. Also links to news and "Interesting Cases" A good site for "the basics".
- White Collar Crime (LII)From Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (LII). Provides links to legal resources for 20 categories of white collar crime: includes federal resources (statutes, agencies) and links to related topics. Best place to begin basic legal research on white-collar crime.
