The contagion of corruption: a model for understanding systemic ethical failures

What is it about?

Systemic ethical failure is often explained by assuming that the perpetrators are acting in a deviant manner emphasizing the rule breaking or illegal nature of the behavior. Personnel or corporate gain is viewed as the driving force of the ethical lapse. We posit that corruption is based on conformity rather than rule breaking. Further, personal or corporate gains are not sufficient as causes of ethically problematic actions. More fundamentally, survival of the organizational enterprise is the driving force in spreading corrupt behavior.

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