I've always speculated that unethical managers will outperform ethical managers under non-life threatening conditions. For example, being unethical at say a ch

I've always speculated that unethical managers will outperform ethical managers under non-life threatening conditions. For example, being unethical at say a chemical company will lead to the end of your company in that area after a catastrophe. Being unethical at a payment processor and the worse that can happen is someone doesn't get paid on time or at all. So in that situation dumping the customer complaints saved a bunch of resources at little cost, since the customers would be back, PayPal was pretty good compared to their competition, leading to them out executing eBay and getting acquired. I AM NOT saying that I agree with this. I'm just thinking about the why behind it.