TY - JOUR
T1 - Obedience and evil
T2 - from Milgram and Kampuchea to normal organizations
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
AU - Rego, Arménio
AU - Clegg, Stewart
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - children soldiers
KW - Khmer Rouge
KW - obedience
KW - organized violence
KW - Pol Pot
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78349311262&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-010-0510-5
DO - 10.1007/s10551-010-0510-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78349311262
SN - 0167-4544
VL - 97
SP - 291
EP - 309
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
IS - 2
ER -