Business Crime: Every Second Firm Concerned

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: November 1, 2011; 16:50 ♦ (Vindobona)

In Austria, business crime becomes more and more obvious. Often alertness is not really given.

Business Crime: Every Second Firm Concerned / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Every second Austrian enterprise with more than 500 employees is concerned by business crime. This is the main message of a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

However, the number of crimes does not increase. More criminal acts are discovered. Damages caused by business crime have an indirect, but strong effect, such as a loss of reputation, a decline in working morale or a…