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Since 2014, Volkswagen (VW) has been enthralled in a reputation-tarnishing cheating scandal that has raised questions regarding how collaborative cheating unfolds in organizational settings. While the behavioral ethics literature provides some insights, this literature is largely confined to individual decision makers and so little work examining how collaborative cheating emerges has been done. Therefore, with this case study, we draw on various data sources (e.g., court case summaries, investigative reporting, technical reports, popular press outlets, and publically available employee interviews) and use case study methodology (i.e., grounded theory, open-systems diagnostics) to construct a process model that explains how collaborative cheating emerges in organizational settings. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

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A 57-year-old Caucasian man presented with a 3-month history of an expanding irregularly shaped superficial ulcer on the vertex of the scalp with associated hair loss. The patient reported blisters and pustules prior to the onset of the ulcer and alopecia. He denied other skin or oral lesions and specifically denied picking at the scalp. At the time of presentation, physical examination revealed a superficial ulcer, measuring roughly 15 3 8 cm (Fig 1), on the vertex of the scalp. A shave biopsy (Fig 2) was initially performed, followed by 2 punch biopsies; one for hematoxylin and eosin staining, and one for direct immunofluorescence (Fig 3).