CHAPTER 1

Light in the Darkness of Business and Higher Education Management

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and Gianluigi Mangia

Contemporary management studies usually concern positive and desirable solutions that increase the organizational effectiveness and performance. That is why graduates of higher business schools, equipped with idealistic views on business environment, need to face the dark side of business practice without the appropriate preparation. Their unawareness of the risk associated with management misconduct results in corrupt scandals, erosion of public trust to their organizations, or even the collapse of profitable corporations. Underestimation of unethical behaviors may lead to severe consequences.

This book attempts to shed ...

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