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How are professionals recruited by external agents in misconduct projects? The infiltration of organized crime in a university
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Radaelli, Giovanni, Guerci, Marco, Cabras, Federica and dalla Chiesa, Nando (2019) How are professionals recruited by external agents in misconduct projects? The infiltration of organized crime in a university. Human Relations, 72 (9). pp. 1407-1435. doi:10.1177/0018726718782616
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718782616
Abstract
Private firms, crime organizations or states may successfully recruit professionals in misconduct projects. How they do so remains however under investigated. Past studies mostly take professionals’ perspective, or limit the organizational initiative of external agents to perverse incentives and threats. Our study shows instead how external agents may penetrate governance bodies and professional events to recruit and control professionals, who are both aware of and reluctant toward misconduct. Our longitudinal case study used judicial and non-judicial sources to analyse how a mafia clan infiltrated Troy University, and controlled the trade of exams and admissions for decades. The clan selected Troy University because of the presence of professors predisposed toward misconduct. The clan infiltrated the predisposed professors inside governance bodies and students inside academic events to recruit the reluctant professors with peer pressures, situated threats and administrative controls. It then exploited a generalized code of silence to control professionals for years. Overall, the study highlights the combination of perverse and pervasive mechanisms to recruit professionals; the role of corrupt professionals as lynchpin between external agents and reluctant peers; and the perverse exploitation of normal professional practices of autonomy, trusteeship and multiple embeddedness.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mafia, Organized crime, Troy State University | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1741-282X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 September 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 72 | ||||||||
| Number: | 9 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1407-1435 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726718782616 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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