The Role of Corporate Culture in Committing Environmental Crime Sample Study of Mashhad Factories

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Asocciate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD in Criminal Law and Criminology, Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The research has been conducted with the aim of evaluating the role of corporate culture in committing environmental crime through a descriptive-survey method. The statistical population of this study is all workers of six factories with the highest environmental crime rate in Mashhad. Among them, 252 persons were selected as the final sample size using proportional stratified random sampling. The data gathering tool in this study was a researcher-made questionnaire whose content and formal validity were confirmed using three expert opinions and its reliability was 0.83 with Cronbach's alpha coefficient The findings of this study indicate that the effectiveness of the organization's goals on the activities of workers and consequently the commission of environmental crime is more than average, between the scores of the role of organizational culture on the activities of workers in terms of sex, education, work experience and age, marital status There is no significant difference between insurance and criminal. The results of Friedman's test on the impact of the three dimensions of the role of organizational culture on environmental crime showed that the organizational culture transfer level was highest and organizational learning was the lowest.
 

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