laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual …

motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …

ethical decisions of individuals. First, a recursive model of ethical decision making is developed in which an agent's utility …

’ ethical perceptions and the possible compromises between ethical values and business interests in the decision-making process … according to professionals. The third part compares consumers’ and professionals’ responses on the matching of each decision to … consumer expectations and on the decision which would appear to them to be ideal. If there is a convergence between consumers …

undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to …

principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has …

Teaching economics has been shown to encourage students to defect in a prisoner's dilemma game. However, can ethics … training reverse that effect and promote cooperation? We conducted an experiment to answer this question. We found that … students who had the ethics module had higher rates of cooperation than students without the ethics module, even after …