There have been spectacular villains in business that have received a great deal of attention
in recent years such as Elizabeth Holmes Adam Neumann and the Sackler family. All of them
were supported to varying extents by others who were integral to their rise and fall what
business psychologist Max Bazerman calls a cast of complicitors. Did those others know the
extent they were contributing to unethical behaviour? How responsible were they for such
behavior? In Profiles in Complicity Bazerman explores the role that others play in supporting
unethical behavior in workplaces and organizations through a host of examples such as those
above and offers a guide for readers to examine the roles they themselves may have in enabling
wrongdoing and the responsibility we all have to keep harm-doers from destroying our
organizations and our society. The book synthesizes scholarship from a range of disciplines
including psychology philosophy economics and sociology and provides useful approaches to
thinking about all levels of complicity. Bazerman starts with a set of chapters exploring
various profiles on differnet types of complicity ranging from those who are knowing true
partners of wrong-doers to those who unknowingly benefit from systemic priviledge or those who
are overly loyal to an organization . Many readers will have witnessed people engaging in
behaviors they believed were wrong behaviors they would never engage in themselves and then
had to discern whether and how to take action. Profiles in Complicity will help readers
understand the psychology of complicity avoid being complicit in wrongdoing and become better
employees citizens and human beings in the process. The book will also offer direct guidance
for organizations seeking to avoid ethical lapses beyond simply looking for bad apples--
