ABSTRACT
This chapter1 provides a brief look at the Enron Corporation debacle. In particular, the chapter discusses the business ethics background and leadership mechanisms that contributed to Enron’s collapse and eventual bankruptcy. Through a systematic analysis of the organizational culture at Enron (following Schein’s frame of reference) it highlights how the company’s culture resulted in a series of ethical missteps by its employees. The chapter concludes with a typology of moral culture types and transitions to help us better understand how the Enron debacle came to fruition and as a way to make sense of future ethical debacles which will undoubtedly become known.
