... in the emergence of corporate psychopaths in leadership positions (Boddy, 2011a). Specifically the increasingly rapid turnover of senior managers and the associated speed with which they are replaced using “shallow” recruitment processes (Furnham, 2014), means that the charismatic tend to outshine the less...

... figures in twentieth century business history could be classified as being corporate psychopaths. As background to this idea, psychopaths and corporate psychopaths are defined. A measure of corporate psychopathy is explored as an aid to identifying corporate psychopaths in business history. This measure...