The Effect of Social Norms on Bribe Offers

Abbink, Klaus; Freidin, Esteban; Gangadharan, Lata; Moro, Rodrigo

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“…An organization's culture and social norms can retard or encourage corrupt behavior. Several researchers have used experimental methods to study the impact of culture and social norms on corrupt behavior (Alatas et al 2009a;Cameron et al 2009; Barr and Serra 2010;Banuri and Eckel 2012, Banerjee 2016Salmon and Serra 2017;Abbink et al 2018). Bicchieri et al (2019) find that social proximity facilitates both norm compliance and norm violation.…”

Section: Dishonesty With Strategic Motives: Corruption In the Workplacementioning

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Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

Gangadharan¹,

Grossman²,

Vecci³

2020

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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Antisocial behavior within the workplace can have adverse consequences on worker and firm productivity. Despite their potentially large costs, antisocial activities are rarely directly observable or recorded, making field studies on this topic relatively uncommon. This chapter presents the commonly used experimental methods to investigate workplace relevant antisocial behavior, the costs of such behavior, and possible explanations for its existence. Section "Sabotage" reviews the laboratory experimental methods that have been employed to

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Section: Dishonesty With Strategic Motives: Corruption In the Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

Gangadharan¹,

Grossman²,

Vecci³

2020

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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“…2006), entre otras. Estas influencias sociales también se aplican a la corrupción (Abbink et ál. 2018;Köbis et ál;Wouda et ál.…”

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“…Según esta caracterización, la corrupción será más o menos consentida dependiendo de las normas prevalentes, es decir, de cuán "normal" se considere. En efecto, la evidencia empírica parece confirmar esta idea, ya que la corrupción parece tener un efecto de contagio, en el sentido de que mayores niveles de percepción de corrupción inciden sobre la decisión de corromperse o su aceptabilidad (Abbink et ál. 2018;Dong, Dulleck & Torgler 2012;Köbis et ál.…”

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Corrupción y normas sociales

Senci

Hasrun²

2020

Rev. colomb. filos. cienc.

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Este artículo tiene tres partes: en primer lugar, vamos a argumentar que la teoría de normas sociales es relevante para el estudio de la corrupción. Ello es así porque la corrupción es un fenómeno que se da en un contexto concreto, en el interior de un sistema normativo determinado, que permite definir ciertas interacciones como “corruptas”. En segundo, vamos a mostrar que la teoría de Coleman sobre las normas sociales adolece de un déficit teórico, ya que no admite ciertas sutilezas en la explicación de la transición de lo macro a lo micro (esto es, cómo los fenómenos macrosociales influyen en los individuos). A partir del esquema de Coleman sobre los niveles de interacción social, señalamos una asimetría no teorizada por el autor entre los mecanismos del paso de lo micro a lo macro, que generan un nivel macro que resulta objetivo o, al menos, común para muchos, y los mecanismos de lo macro a lo micro, que parten de un nivel macro que no necesariamente es percibido del mismo modo por los individuos, sino que está mediado por sus creencias sobre la sociedad; y esto es más notorio cuando se trata de un fenómeno como la corrupción, en el que hay fuertes incentivos para el secretismo, por lo que no es posible afirmar que el nivel social sea objetivo (en cuanto a su percepción por parte de los individuos) o común a muchos. Existen, como veremos, mecanismos que intervienen en la explicación de las conductas de corrupción que se relacionan con la influencia de las normas sociales. En tercer lugar, ejemplificaremos la transición de lo macro a lo micro a través de la noción de expectativas normativas, y estudiaremos los mecanismos que facilitan que los individuos perciban los comportamientos corruptos como legítimos. Específicamente, pasaremos revista a distintos mecanismos que están interrelacionados y que se refieren a: modos de transacción, disonancia cognitiva, narrativas e ignorancia pluralista.

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“…In particular, we tend to prefer to behave in certain ways when we know that most other people also behave that way. This descriptive norm effect has been successfully used to encourage various prosocial behaviours such as decreasing tax evasion [3], decreasing energy use [4] and increasing organ donor registrations [5], though they can also encourage anti-social behaviour such as corruption [6, 7], even in the presence of strong moral pressures against the behaviour [8]. Given the importance that descriptive norms play in our decisions, it is both theoretically and practically beneficial to understand why and when we conform to descriptive norms.…”

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Conformity to the descriptive norms of people with opposing political or social beliefs

2019

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The descriptive norm effect refers to findings that individuals will tend to prefer behaving certain ways when they know that other people behave similarly. An open question is whether individuals will still conform to other people’s behaviour when they do not identify with these other people, such as a Democrat being biased towards following a popular behaviour amongst Republicans. Self-categorization theory makes the intuitive prediction that people will actively avoid conforming to the norms of groups with which they do not identify. We tested this by informing participants that a particular action was more popular amongst people they identified with and additionally informed some participants that this action was unpopular amongst people they did not identify with. Specifically, we presented descriptive norms of people who supported different political parties or had opposing stances on important social issues. Counter to self-categorization theory’s prediction, we found that informing participants that an action was unpopular amongst people they did not identify with led participants’ preferences to shift away from that action. These results suggest that a general desire to conform with others may outpower the common ingroup vs outgroup mentality.

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The Effect of Social Norms on Bribe Offers

Cited by 52 publications

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Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

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