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The Dark Side of Leadership: The Role of Informal Institutional Framework on the Negative Moral and Ethical Behaviors of Leaders in Organizations

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The dark side of leadership has been increasingly receiving more attention from scholars. However, it is not entirely clear how much informal institutional framework influence leaders’ behavior toward the dark side. The argument of this study is that the aforementioned framework influences leaders’ ethical/moral decisions. It does that by either preventing leaders from taking unethical/immoral decisions or as in the context of this study provides them legitimacy for their action so that they are questioned much less. Findings of the study show that informal institutional framework can be an important point of reference for the leaders before taking ethical/moral decisions. Nonetheless, it may not necessarily incline them toward the positive side.

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Kurtulmuş, B.E. (2017). The Dark Side of Leadership: The Role of Informal Institutional Framework on the Negative Moral and Ethical Behaviors of Leaders in Organizations. In: Muenjohn, N., McMurray, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Leadership in Transforming Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57940-9_6

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