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Evidence of organizational convenience can be found among suspected white-collar criminals as described in reports of investigations in both Norway and the USA. For example, Yusuf Acar at the chief technology office in Washington, DC, had ample organizational opportunity to hire people in return for kickbacks.
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Gottschalk, P. (2016). Organizational Convenience. In: Explaining White-Collar Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44986-9_5
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