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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1718| Title: | Organizational structure, communication, and group ethics |
| Keywords: | Experimental economics Group decision-making Organisational structure Communication Ethics Responsibility-alleviation Responsibility-diffusion |
| Description: | Trabajo publicado como artículo en American Economic Review 100(5): 2478-2491 (2010).-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.5.2478 This paper investigates experimentally how organisational decision processes affect the moral motivations of actors inside a firm that must forego profits to reduce harming a third party. In a "vertical" treatment, one insider unilaterally sets the harm-reduction strategy; the other can only accept or quit. In a "horizontal" treatment, the insiders decide by consensus. Our 2-by-2 design also controls for communication effects. In our data, communication makes vertical firms more ethical; voice appears to mitigate "responsibility-alleviation" in that subordinates with voice feel responsible for what their firms do. Vertical firms are then more ethical than the horizontal firms for which our bargaining data reveal a dynamic form of responsibility-alleviation and our chat data indicate a strong "insider-outsider" effect. Financial support from the Conseil Scientifique de l’Université Louis Pasteur (formerly, Université de Strasbourg I), from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREA (Barcelona Economics) is gratefully acknowledged. |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1718 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1718 |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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