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There is probably no single occupation in the world that has been met with a more systematic degree of naivety from its employers than the chief executive. It has been argued that goal-oriented management is a management approach that can inherently bring about more white-collar crime . Especially when goals are ambitious and the CEO is personally responsible for goal achievement and faces negative personal consequences of non-achievement, the CEO might tend to use both legal and illegal means in the struggle to achieve goals.

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Gottschalk, P. (2017). White-Collar Criminals. In: CEOs and White-Collar Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55935-3_3

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