The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies how meaning is built at work and how moral orders are sustained, provides an answer. He is the author of, among other publications, Moral Gray Zones, published by the Princeton University Press in 2008.
[This article was provided with permission from Harvard Business School Working Knowledge.]