Organizational misbehaviour

Abstract

I like this book a lot. It is well written, well produced and has some new vibrant material within its pages. The authors claim that the study of misbehaviour has developed apace since the first edition came out to considerable academic interest. That edition of the book has received 1400 citations since its publication in 1999 and there are now at least 16 other working definitions of something like ‘misbehaviour’ within the field, all of which are guiding research. Both editions reveal an organizational world in which people do not want to work and, especially, not to work hard. Who can blame them, we might ask? For, almost everywhere, our senior managers and our organizations certainly do not appear to wish to work, or less still work hard, for our specific benefit. Everywhere Ackroyd and Thompson (2022, xix) look, they see misbehaviour, defined as