Title: Introduction to Convenience Theory
Subtitle: Deviance Motives, Opportunities, and Attitudes
Subject Classification:  Sociology, Business and Management, Corporate Governance  
BIC Classification: KJS, JHBC
BISAC Classification: SOC004000, BUS008000, SOC026020
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Nov 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-207-2
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-208-9

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Description

Deviance refers to harmful behaviors and actions by individuals and organizations that violate norms, laws, rules, regulations, ethical standards, and institutional expectations. Convenience refers to avenues of achieving desired outcomes by saving time and effort, and by avoiding strain and pain. Convenient deviance is a phenomenon that violates both compliance for the legal license and conformance for the social license. The theory of convenience represents an integrated framework by the convenience triangle in three dimensions to explain convenient deviance. First, there are motives of possibilities and threats at the individual and organizational levels. Next, there are opportunities to commit and conceal wrongdoing based on access to resources and offender status, institutional decay and lack of guardianship, and criminal market forces. Finally, the attitude of willingness derives from personal choice and perception of innocence.

The book starts by conceptualizing convenience orientation that varies among potential offenders, and by discussing deviance seriousness as determinant of convenience. Then it explores ways of theorizing deviance convenience, including reasons for punishing their own in the privileged elite in society. The structural convenience model with its three dimensions and fourteen propositions are presented in the following chapters. Finally, the book explains various ways scholars and students, as well as law enforcement and corporate investigators, can apply convenience theory in their empirical work.

Biography

Author(s):  Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School. His distinguished academic background includes studies at Technische Universität Berlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dartmouth College, and Henley Business School. Prior to his academic career, Professor Gottschalk gained extensive practical experience as a managing director and CEO in several business enterprises. His research focuses on knowledge management, white-collar crime, and corporate investigations.

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