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Group size, networks and ethical behaviour

Comment

08 Nov 2012

Recent times have seen some alarming instances of small groups at the top of organisations behaving in appalling ways: the contempt of traders for the ‘muppets’ outside the Wall Street charmed circle; the manipulation of the Libor rate; the police officers responsible for covering up the events at Hillsborough Stadium in 1989. Piers Ibbotson FRSA argues that these instances may not be anomalies and may be an inevitable consequence of an organisation’s size and the imposition of structures that are blind to the fundamental architecture of human groups.