ABSTRACT

Only a few in-depth studies of managers and ethical behavior exist. This type of research requires the cooperation of organizations and their managers, which is often hard to get.2 Robert Jackall’s Moral Mazes documents the complex and perplexing world of management decision making, where ethics often are not specific decision criteria.3 Instead, managers find their decisions bound by context, leading to a situational form of ethics. Veteran managers navigate such moral mazes in ways that let them survive and succeed in their organizations.