ABSTRACT

A common denominator between several of the enabling mechanisms behind fraud and corruption described here could be called: The Closing of Mindsets. Suspicions are buried by top management. And since all the built on false representations of what is going on and on carefully designed camouflage and manipulations, maintaining a decent facade takes a lot of energy. The mind becomes gloomy and passive. It is fraud and corruption, understood as illegal or illegitimate deception, or the using of false representations to obtain an unjust advantage or to injure the rights or interests of another, that has been locked out. The social construction of daily life in the organization has failed to make fraud and corruption a social fact. The solution then is to reopen the mindsets of the people involved and start a social reconstruction of a reality in which fraud and corruption and the moral condemnation of it exists; a return to sanity as it were.