This article reviews literature on organisational misbehaviour and suggests that the literature can be divided into two groups. It distinguishes a characteristic North American way of thinking about the topic, and a characteristic British/European perspective. In this article these two approaches to misbehaviour are referred to as the management/organisational behaviour and the industrial sociological perspectives. The first perspective is mainly championed by North American scholars, while the second perspective by British/European academics. Not only do these two perspectives differ from one another with respect to their understanding of misbehaviour, they also differ in the way organisational misbehaviour needs to be studied.