We provide an analytically structured history of Enron's involvement in the California energy crisis, exploring its emergence as a corrupt organization and its use of an interorganizational network to manipulate California's energy supply markets. We use this history to introduce the concept of network-enabled corruption, showing how corruption, even if primarily enacted by a single dominant organization, is often highly dependent on the support of other organizations. Specifically, we show how Enron combined resources from partner firms with its own capabilities, manipulating the energy market and capitalizing on the crisis. From a methodological point of view, our study emphasizes the growing importance of digital sources for historical research, drawing particularly on telephone and email records from the period to develop a rich, fly-on-the-wall understanding of a phenomenon that is otherwise hard to observe.

我们提供了安然参与加州能源危机的分析结构历史，探讨了它作为腐败组织的出现以及它利用跨组织网络来操纵加州能源供应市场。我们利用这段历史来介绍网络腐败的概念，展示腐败，即使主要由一个主导组织制定，通常也高度依赖其他组织的支持。具体来说，我们展示了安然如何将合作伙伴公司的资源与其自身能力相结合，操纵能源市场并利用危机。从方法论的角度来看，我们的研究强调数字资源对于历史研究的重要性日益增加，特别是利用这一时期的电话和电子邮件记录来开发丰富的、