TY  - CHAP
AB  - Misbehavior is ubiquitous. Its occurrence stretches back in time and shows little sign of abating. According to Richards (2008, pp. 653–654), organizational misbehavior “has been a prominent feature of organizational studies throughout the twentieth century and continues to command similar attention in the first decade of the twenty-first century.” Early interest has been traced back to F. W. Taylor's criticisms of workers’ restriction of output (Taylor, 2003) in the first two decades of the twentieth century, a phenomenon also considered by Donald Roy (1952, 1959) after World War Two, and subsequently extended by Jason Ditton (1977) and Gerald Mars (1982) to include workplace crimes such as “fiddles and theft.” In more recent times, such fiddles have been extended to the study of “cyberslacking” (Block, 2001), “cyberloafing” (Lim, 2002), and general workplace internet misuse (Lara, Tacoronte, Ding, & Ting, 2006). Yet, despite such interest in “organizational misbehavior,” the scholarship in this field is relatively recent and generally traced back to the work of Vardi and Wiener (1996) and Ackroyd and Thompson (1999).
VL  - 19
SN  - 978-1-78052-662-1, 978-1-78052-663-8/0742-6186
DO  - 10.1108/S0742-6186(2012)0000019003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-6186(2012)0000019003
AU  - Barnes Alison
AU  - Taksa Lucy
ED  - Alison Barnes
ED  - Lucy Taksa
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Introduction – Misbehavior in the Air
T2  - Rethinking Misbehavior and Resistance in Organizations
T3  - Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - ix
EP  - xxiii
Y2  - 2024/09/25
ER  -