Unethical behavior in organizations is usually associated with the risk of negative consequences for the organization and for the involved managers if being detected. The existing experimental literature in economics has so far mainly focused on the analysis of unethical behavior in environments...

The Social Responsibility of Business typically involves self-regulation, which entails spontaneous compliance with social norms or standards that are not imposed by hard law. In the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility, its voluntary basis has been stressed both in some official documents...

We use this review of Explaining Norms (Oxford University Press, 2013) by Geoffrey Brennan, Lina Eriksson, Robert Goodin, and Nicholas Southwood (BEGS) as an occasion to question the predominant definition of norms among legal scholars and empirical researchers. Part I discusses two foundational...

Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They carry the notions that "the participant," "the customer," or "the worker" should behave in a certain way. In English, we refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the...