@article{940630,
      recid = {940630},
      author = {Rendtorff, Jacob Dahl,},
      title = {Moral Blindness in Business : a social theory of evil in  organizations and institutions /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {"Also managers are human beings: this compelling book  offers an ethical conception of management, which is highly  relevant to our times, where the balance of power between  corporations and the state is in flux. Against the  sociological view that managers simply do whatever they  have to do dictated by the pragmatic requirements of the  market, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff develops a powerful, original  and ethically challenging conception of managers as  subjects of judgment and imagination. He discusses the  works of Hannah Arendt and in particular her work on  Eichmann as the basis for this ethics of judgment. The book  is lucid as well as thought provoking." - Dr. Reidar Due,  Fellow, Oxford University In this book, Jacob Dahl  Rendtorff investigates moral blindness in business and  public administration based on Hannah Arendts 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 is analysed with focus on  obedience to authority and systemic role conformity of  managers and administrators. This includes the critical  question about how concepts of banality of evil and moral  blindness can explain ethical insensibility and lack of  moral understanding in business and administration.  Rendtorff proposes a humanistic vision of management and  ethical leadership. Moral thinking, responsibility and  moral judgment is essential in management and governance in  business and administration. This book is a must-read for  academics and practitioners studying and working in  philosophy of management, business ethics, political  philosophy, administration ethics and corporate social  responsibility.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/940630},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48},
}