Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social practice this paper develops a novel approach to the study of CSR. According to this approach, pro-social activities are conceptualized as social practices that are employed by individual managers in their personal struggles for social power. Whether...

We conduct an experiment assessing the extent to which people trade off the economic costs of truthfulness against the intrinsic costs of lying. The results allow us to reject a type-based model. People's preferences for truthfulness do not identify them as only either quot;economic typesquot;...

This paper examines the associations of Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs’) prosocial behavior with their career paths and corporate policies. Using individuals’ involvement with charitable organizations as a proxy for prosocial behavior, we find that prosocial individuals are promoted to...

Marketers often employ a variety of positive emotions to encourage consumption or promote a particular behavior (e.g., to buy, donate, or recycle) benefiting an organization or cause. We show that specific positive emotions do not universally increase prosocial behavior but rather encourage...

We experimentally test norm-behavior consistency by investigating the relationship between unethical behaviors in the workplace through financial reporting choices and the perceived social inappropriateness of unethical decisions. We conducted a norm-elicitation experiment in which we considered...

We examine the impact of prosocial CEOs on corporate labor violations. Contrary to the theoretical proposition that individuals’ prosocial behavior can sometimes backfire, we find that firms managed by prosocial CEOs have lower corporate labor violations. This effect is stronger for...