The Dynamics of Business Ethics and Economic Activity.
The authors model the agency relationship between managers and investors. Through socialization, ethical managers develop internalized norms that prevent them from acting opportunistically. Unethical managers lack these norms. Higher ethical standards on the part of managers increase economic activity in the short run. However, increased economic activity increases opportunities to profit from unethical behavior, eroding ethical standards over the long run. When this rate of erosion is high, cycling of ethics and economic activity emerges. Otherwise, ethics and economic activity converge to a stable long-run limiting value. Copyright 1994 by American Economic Association.
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1994
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Authors: | Noe, Thomas H ; Rebello, Michael J |
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American Economic Review. - American Economic Association - AEA. - Vol. 84.1994, 3, p. 531-47
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American Economic Association - AEA |
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