Mismanagement, “Jumpers,” and Morality

Book excerpt: This book is a longitudinal multi-site anthropological study of automatic cotton gin plants, exposing the roots of amoral corporate leadership and explaining recent business scandals by managers’ low-moral choices while advancing to top-level jobs. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to management and leadership scholars of all social sciences and for historians, and especially for co-operative scholars. It addresses the topics with regard to sociology and management studies and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of trust, leadership, management, and organisation control.