ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author reflects on one of the two senses of organizational evil, namely corporate evil. Even if one maintains that corporate evil is the moral responsibility of certain individuals, it strikes him that the drivers and indeed the expression of evil may be quite different in the corporate context. Examples of evil considered in psychological literature focus on violent crimes such as murder, rape and torture. The psychological literature on evil focuses on evil that takes the form of interpersonal or collective violence of corporate evil and suggest that the evildoer is usually faced with a value tradeoffs. Psychologists reject the notion that there is something intrinsic in the moral fiber of the evildoer that makes him or her behave in evil ways. Owing to intellectual tradition of social psychology, which favours the situations explanations of human behaviour and its motives, it is hardly surprising that most psychological attempts to provide a conceptual framework for understanding evil.
