Insights from research at HEC Lausanne-UNIL – Can entrepreneurial ingenuity become toxic? And how can a criminal organisation successfully develop and perfect a real illegal business over the decades? These are the questions that Prof. Guido Palazzo, professor in business ethics at HEC Lausanne-UNIL proposes to answer in his recent research into the scandal of illegal toxic waste in Italy.
On 4 February 1991, Mario Tamburrino was blinded by splashes from industrial chemical products while he was unloading the barrels that he had transported from Piedmont to Naples as part of his job. That was when the notorious illegal toxic waste scandal came to light, a crime made possible by the Mafia's entrepreneurial ingenuity, lax regulations, and environmental pollution on an industrial scale.
It is a scandal that continues today, as the professor in business ethics Guido Palazzo explains in an article recenlty published on the HECimpact research blog. It's a tale that is both saddening and worrying.
You can find it on the HECimpact research blog.
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