Assessing the dangerousness of corporates in the light of Schein's organizational culture modelA case study of Saman al-Hajj financial and credit institution

The divergence of criminology studies and organizational behavior in the analysis of corporate crimes has caused the findings of studies in the field of criminology of corporate crimes to be unbalanced and scattered. Therefore, the detailed analysis of corporate crimes requires simultaneous attention to criminological and organizational theories and their evaluation and adaptation to each other. Based on this, the current research tries to investigate the dangerousness of companies in the light of Schein’s organizational culture model. The dangerousness theory consists of two variables, social adaptability and criminal capacity, and Schein’s organizational culture model includes three levels of artifacts, values, and underlying presumptions. The findings of this research, in the position of matching two theories, show that companies with a dangerous state, by recognizing the criminal organizational culture, seek to show their lawful face at the level of artifacts. This, which is done through image organization, confirms the high social compliance of criminal companies. However, recognized behaviors at the level of values and underlying presumptions, which include the institutionalization of deviance and the normality of crime, confirm the high criminal capacity of companies. Thus, the assessment of the dangerousness based on the Schein model proves that the artifacts are consistent with social adaptability and the basic values and assumptions are consistent with criminal capacity. According to the mentioned pattern, it can be said that widespread financial corruption in Saman al-Hajj financial institution in different areas shows that at the level of fundamental values and assumptions, committing a crime is considered as a normal value and behavior, and therefore, the financial institution Saman al-Hajj has a high criminal capacity. However, the focus on religious and social activities at the level of artifacts shows that the company also has high social compliance. In this way, it can be said that Saman al-Hajj financial institution is among the white collar criminals with high criminal capacity and high social compliance.