case study about Enron would be easy, but it's not. The temptation is all too great to point fingers at individuals and start passing out blame as if the guilty parties had invented the system that led to the debacle. There is no lack of candidates; first and foremost Ken Lay comes to mind right away, along with scores of Enron directors and executives. Any numbers of politicians are in the running. And the folks at Arthur Andersen are under the microscope as well. The courts, congressional hearings, and public opinion will sort most of this out, for better or worse, but it would be foolish and shortsighted to make this simply a case of the personal failure of a few people. The ethical problems run wider and deeper. The real culprits are systemic, the ethical issues you need to blame are corporate ethics, corporate culture, anti-regulatory mania, blurred lines, corrosive effects of money, accounting sleight of hand and the system as a whole (Peter Fusaro, 25). Corporate ethics is considered when corp
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