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The Dark Side
Critical Cases on the Downside of Business
Edited by Emmanuel Raufflet and Albert J. Mills

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Despite the availability of many case studies on business best
practice with regard to social and environmental issues, when
educators look for resources to illustrate to students the more
typical cases, let alone the really scandalous practices of the worst
firms, the cupboard is almost entirely bare. But there is a critical
need for business educators to expose students and managers to these
issues to understand the different multifaceted phenomena of our late
capitalist era.

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The Dark Side
Critical Cases on the Downside of Business
Edited by Emmanuel Raufflet and Albert J. Mills
304 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-906093-20-4 | Published
3 August 2009
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The discredit of a certain brand of capitalism – and the managers that
practice it – continues apace. The increasing lack of tolerance for
short-term thinking and a systematic neglect of the social,
regulatory, and economic conditions in which business ought to operate
means we are entering a time of trouble and questions – an era of
economic, social, and environmental turbulence.

There is a critical need for business educators and trainers to expose
students and managers to these issues to examine, explore, and
understand the different multifaceted, complex phenomena of our late
capitalist era. There is also a need to foster a climate for future
and current business managers to reflect, feel, and think differently
both ethically and cognitively. The 16 innovative case studies in "The
Dark Side: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business" are designed
for this very purpose: to provoke reflection and debate; to challenge
and change perceptions; and to create responsible managers.

The cases are innovative in two ways. First, in terms of content they
acknowledge the diversity of actors and interests in and around
organizations. They contain different levels of analysis, and propose
different points of view and logics. They recognize that decisions
that seem sound when they are made may actually contain the seeds of
their later failure. Second, these cases are innovative in terms of
format. Whereas most cases are formatted around decision-making
situations, these are more diverse and open-ended. This stimulates the
use of judgment – the capacity to synthesize, integrate, and balance
short- and long-term effects, appreciate effects on different groups,
and learn to listen and evaluate. Whereas decision-making is the key
skill when confronting complicated issues and situations, judgment-
making relies on experience and is a far better tool in the complex,
murky, gray areas typical of business ethics.

The cases included here are all finalists or award-winners from the
first seven years of the "Dark Side of Business Case Competition", a
joint event of the Academy of Management's Critical Management Studies
Section and Management Education Section. In many areas of management,
case studies are almost exclusively devoted to "best practice" cases
or difficult decisions faced by basically well-managed firms. When
educators look for resources to illustrate to students the more
typical cases, let alone the really scandalous practices of the worst
firms, the cupboard is almost entirely bare. From the beginning, the
Dark Side competition aimed at encouraging case studies that integrate
socio-political issues with organizational dynamics, thus
contextualizing organizational and management problems within the
broader system of capitalism.

These cases comprise a diverse and rich collection from a range of
countries, continents, and issues and focus on interactions in
business organizations as well as between business organizations and
groups and societies. "The Dark Side: Critical Cases on the Downside
of Business" is divided into four sections. The first sheds light on
gray areas in the behavior of businesses. The second concerns the
interactions between business and local communities in diverse
countries. The third concerns crises, and specifically how firms may
create or manage them. Finally, the fourth section concerns gray areas
in business behavior in the global context.

Teaching notes for all of the cases will be available free of charge
to educators from the publisher.

"The Dark Side: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business" will be an
essential purchase for educators and is expected to be a widely used
resource at all levels of management education.

CONTENTS

Introduction: the case for "critical" cases
Emmanuel Raufflet and Albert Mills


1. Gray areas in the behavior of businesses

1.1 Leading the team out of the hazing blues yonder: the case of the
Windsor Spitfire hockey team
Francine K. Schlosser

1.2 John Hamilton's work and eldercare dilemma. Break the silence?
Sustain the silence?
Rosemary A. McGowan

1.3 Hugh Connerty and Hooters: what is successful entrepreneurship?
Mary Godwyn

1.4 Antiquorum Auctioneers: building brands on ignorance?
Benoit Leleux

1.5 The international career opportunity: from dream to nightmare in
eight weeks
Matt Bladowski and Rosemary A. McGowan


2. Business and local communities

2.1 Food Lion vs. the UFCW: time for a change?
Paul Michael Swiercz

2.2 Manipulation, placation, partnership, or delegated power: can
community and business really work together when surface-mining comes
to town?
Sherry Finney

2.3 The smell of power: Yves Rocher in La Gacilly, France
Emmanuel Raufflet and Monique Le Chene

2.4 Who is responsible for the squatter camps? Mining companies in
South Africa and the challenge of local collaboration
Ralph Hamann


3. Creating (or managing) crises

3.1 The Westray Mine explosion
Caroline J. O'Connell and Albert J. Mills

3.2 The story behind the water in Walkerton, Ontario
Elizabeth A. McLeod and Jean Helms Mills

3.3 Dark territory: the Graniteville chlorine spill
Jill A. Brown and Ann K. Buchholtz


4. Gray areas in the global context

4.1 The dark side of water: a struggle for access and control
Latha Poonamallee and Anita Howard

4.2 Mattel Inc.: lead-tainted toys
Adenekan (Nick) Dedeke and Martin Calkins

4.3 Google, Inc.: figuring out how to deal with China
Anne T. Lawrence

4.4 Genocide in Rwanda: leadership, ethics, and organisational
"failure" in a post-colonial context
Brad S. Long, Jim Grant, Albert J. Mills, Ellen Rudderham-Gaudet, and
Amy Warren
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