Moral Blindness in Business: A Social Theory of Evil in Organizations and Institutions

by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

Book Overview

In this book, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff investigates moral blindness in business and public administration based on Hannah Arendt's concept of banality of evil in her famous report on the Nazi-criminal Adolf Eichmann trail in Jerusalem in 1961. Moral blindness and evil in management is instrumental wrongdoing inflicted upon human beings as a violation of their dignity and humanity. Organizational evil in business, bureaucracies and public administration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030488594
• ISBN13: 9783030488598
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"