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Discuss the ways in which Enron's leadership and culture influenced its business ethics.

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This solution discusses the ways in which Enron's leadership and culture influenced its business ethics. A thorough discussion is provided. Includes 2 resources.

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Basically, we're looking at a company (Enron) where the leadership set the motives and actions for the remaining people in the organization. While the myriad of frauds taking place were only known to the CEO and CFO at first, they quickly became known to other executives. The executives then felt "comfortable" enough in those frauds to give directions to others in the ...

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