Ethical wiggle-room: a seedbed of miscreancy in corporisations

On the basis of what's said in this article, I'd want to see a bit more research cross-culturally, but if the basic results pan out, it's a very significant finding for the study of corporisations (politology?). It would relate to the issues relating to the Eichmann thing about participation in corporate evil and perhaps give a window into a psychological mechanism allowing people to offload a sense of responsibility to an aggregate, corporised entity:

Our experiments showed that if people plainly see that to lie in a given situation would be fraudulent, they shy away from it. However, if people are given "wriggle room," they can convince themselves that their behaviour is not fraudulent and this does not attack their sense of who they are

In a sense it seems to link 'back' to the question "Did God really say '...'?" in which the serpent, by that question, precisely opens up the kind of wiggle room uncovered in this research. This strengthens my hunch that evil is essentially social not individual.

We are basically honest – except when we are at work, study suggests