Materialism and the Bright and Dark Sides of the Financial Dream in Spain: The Positive Role of Money Attitudes-The Matthew Effect

2015

J Bus Ethics

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A well-known common wisdom asserts that strong social bonds undermine delinquency. However, there is little empirical evidence to substantiate this assertion regarding adolescence academic cheating across cultures. In this study, we adopt social bonding theory and develop a theoretical model involving four social bonds (parental attachment, academic commitment, peer involvement, and moral values) and adolescence self-reported academic cheating behavior and cheating perception. Based on 913 adolescents (average age = 15.88) in France (n = 429) and China (n = 484), we show that parental attachment, academic commitment, and moral values curb academic cheating; counterintuitively, peer involvement contributes to cheating. We test our theoretical model across culture and gender, separately, using multi-group analyses. For French teens, peer involvement encourages and moral values undermine cheating; for Chinese adolescents, all four social bonds contribute to cheating, similar to the whole sample. For girls, parental attachment deters, but peer involvement enhances cheating. For boys, parental attachment is the only social bond that does not affect cheating. We treat social integration (popularity) as a mediator of the relationship between peer involvement and social bonds that construct, in turn, is related to cheating and ask: Considering popularity, who are likely to cheat? Our answers provide an interesting paradox: Popularity matters, yet popular French girls and unpopular Chinese boys are likely to cheat. Social sharing is a positive pro-social behavior in consumer behavior. However, academic cheating and rule breaking, reflecting self-serving altruism and the red sneakers effect, at a very young age may have the potential to grow into the Enron Effect later in their lives as executives in organizations. We shed new lights on both the bright and dark sides of social bonds on cheating, demonstrate bad company corrupts good morals, differently, across culture and gender, and provide practical implications to social bonding, business ethics, and cheating.

Section: Peer Involvementmentioning

confidence: 87%

Does Bad Company Corrupt Good Morals? Social Bonding and Academic Cheating among French and Chinese Teens

Gentina

2015

J Bus Ethics

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“…Materialistic consumers think that they are the sum of their possessions (Belk 1984(Belk , 1988Easterlin and Crimmins 1991;Richins 2004;Richins and Dawson 1992;Tang, Luna-Arocas et al 2014). Materialists judge their own and others' success by the quantity and quality of possessions accumulated (Success).…”

Section: Religiosity and The Ten Commandmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory of Monetary Intelligence: Money Attitudes—Religious Values, Making Money, Making Ethical Decisions, and Making the Grade

2014

J Bus Ethics

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“…After passing the threshold, or the upper bar (Edmans, ), perceived CSR excites not only employees' ordinary feelings but also their passionate emotional excitement about their organization and thus exhibits an exponentially high level of organizational pride (Jones, ; Onkila, ), which affects other work‐related emotions. We extend the Matthew Effect in science and many fields (Merton, ; Stanovich, ; Tang, ; Tang et al, ; Azoulay et al ., ; Tang et al ., , ), to the Matthew Effect in CSR and sustainable policy. The Matthew Effect's double‐edged sword creates bright and the dark sides: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility Excites ‘Exponential’ Positive Employee Engagement: The Matthew Effect in CSR and Sustainable Policy

Zhou

Luo

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

2017

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) captures an organization's commitment to and engagement with multiple stakeholders; integrates economic, social, and environmental concerns into sustainable policies; and enhances employee perceptions, emotions, long-term value creation, and financial success. Most researchers have reported linear relationships between CSR and employee attitudes. Here, we test a new theory: After surpassing an upper bar, employee-perceived CSR exponentially stimulates their organizational pride. Organizational pride has a positive and linear direct impact on job satisfaction and affective commitment, respectively. Perceived CSR exponentially excites job satisfaction and affective commitment indirectly through organizational pride. Data collected from 296 managers and employees in 12 diverse companies in China support our theory. Policymakers must develop a sustainable policy, nourish a conducive environment, and pursue CSR as a competitive advantage because at a high level, perceived CSR exponentially reaps intangible rewards, creating the positive Matthew Effect in CSR and sustainable policy.There are four types of data: nominal (category), ordinal (order), interval (equal distance), and ratio (equal distance with an absolute zero) data. Our measure of CSR is an interval scale (equal distance) with an artificial zero (0) but is not a ratio scale (an interval scale with an absolute zero). 3 We would like to thank anonymous reviewer B for this excellent comment. We provided information for the exponential term of perceived CSR here.