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An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26777 An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace Price, Gavin ichelp@gibs.co.za Muto, Luigi UCTD Whistle-blowing White-collar criminal Need Anti-fraud awareness White-collar crime Fraud detection Fraud prevention Internal controls Job rotation Love of money Greed Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. The aim of the research was to look at the motivations behind white-collar crime and, by means of the insights gained, allow businesses to achieve a better understanding of these motivations and the possible loopholes that exist with respect to white-collar crime. Empowered which such knowledge, businesses fraud mitigation polices and approaches are enhanced; which contribute towards sustained operations and increased shareholder value by reduce losses. Face-to-face interviews were held with 29 white-collar offenders imprisoned at the Johannesburg Medium Correctional Centre in Gauteng, South African. Data was collected from these interviews and grouped into themes that related to the research questions. An action plan was formulated to assist business in their fight to eliminate and reduce the impact of commercial crime. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T07:54:17Z 2012-09-21 2013-09-07T07:54:17Z 2012-03-08 2012-09-21 2012-07-28 Dissertation Muto, L 2011, An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace , MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26777 > F/12/4/734/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26777 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07282012-192757/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Whistle-blowing White-collar criminal Need Anti-fraud awareness White-collar crime Fraud detection Fraud prevention Internal controls Job rotation Love of money Greed An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace |
| title | An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace |
| title_full | An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace |
| title_fullStr | An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace |
| title_full_unstemmed | An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace |
| title_short | An offender’s perspective of what motivates, deters and prevents white collar crime in the South African workplace |
| title_sort | offender s perspective of what motivates deters and prevents white collar crime in the south african workplace |
| topic | UCTD Whistle-blowing White-collar criminal Need Anti-fraud awareness White-collar crime Fraud detection Fraud prevention Internal controls Job rotation Love of money Greed |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26777 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07282012-192757/ |