In the wake of
the U.S. Justice Department’s initial arrests of FIFA officials in May 2015 on
corruption charges, could the public reasonably expect FIFA’s corporate
sponsors to pressure the international governing body of footfall (soccer in
the U.S., where “football” is reserved for “subconcussions being inherent to a
sport”)? If so, would the pressure be sufficient to rid the powerful international
organization of its squalid officials and practices? I contend that these
questions come down to how the power was divided at the time between the
sponsors and the organization, rather than to the sponsors’ respective ethical
positions or even how strongly the executives feel about ethics in business,
including FIFA.
The
full essay is in Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of
Mendacity, available in print and as an ebook at
Amazon.com.
