Capturing an organization’s culture requires a complex form of research. It requires doing an in-depth case study that includes the structures, values, and practices of an organization. And at each of these levels, we have to assess what elements come to sustain misconduct and illegal behavior. In other words, in doing a cultural diagnosis, we must look for toxic elements. Ideally, we should do a forensic ethnography, in which we conduct an anthropological analysis of the culture in organizations that have been found to have structural rule breaking and damaging behavior. We need to do an
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