Obedience and Evil: From Milgram and Kampuchea to Normal Organizations

e Cunha, MP; Rego, A; Clegg, SR

Obedience and Evil: From Milgram and Kampuchea to Normal Organizations

e Cunha, MP Rego, A Clegg, SR

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Citation:: Journal of Business Ethics, 2010, 97 (2), pp. 291 - 309
Issue Date:: 2010-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	e Cunha, MP	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rego, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, SR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Business Ethics, 2010, 97 (2), pp. 291 - 309	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0167-4544	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/15855
dc.description.abstract	Obedience: a simple term. Stanley Milgram, the famous experimental social psychologist, shocked the world with theory about it. Another man, Pol Pot, the infamous leader of the Khmer Rouge, showed how far the desire for obedience could go in human societies. Milgram conducted his experiments in the controlled environment of the US psychology laboratory of the 1960s. Pol Pot experimented with Utopia in the totalitarian Kampuchea of the 1970s. In this article, we discuss the process through which the Khmer Rouge regime created an army of unquestioningly obedient soldiers - including child soldiers. Based on these two cases, we advance a framework on how obedience can be grown or countered. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Business Ethics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10551-010-0510-5	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Applied Ethics	en_US
dc.title	Obedience and Evil: From Milgram and Kampuchea to Normal Organizations	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	97	en_US
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utslib.for	1505 Marketing	en_US
utslib.for	2201 Applied Ethics	en_US
dc.location.activity	Sydney, Australia
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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Abstract:

Obedience: a simple term. Stanley Milgram, the famous experimental social psychologist, shocked the world with theory about it. Another man, Pol Pot, the infamous leader of the Khmer Rouge, showed how far the desire for obedience could go in human societies. Milgram conducted his experiments in the controlled environment of the US psychology laboratory of the 1960s. Pol Pot experimented with Utopia in the totalitarian Kampuchea of the 1970s. In this article, we discuss the process through which the Khmer Rouge regime created an army of unquestioningly obedient soldiers - including child soldiers. Based on these two cases, we advance a framework on how obedience can be grown or countered. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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