We explore how an organization's financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct and they had left the organization years before the...

Wirtschaftskriminalität in Deutschland wird in jüngerer Zeit zunehmend auch von wirtschaftlichen Unternehmungen selbst problematisiert. Neben den materiellen Folgeschäden sind es dabei insbesondere die Verletzung des kaufmännischen Prinzips von Treu und Glauben und die Verunsicherung des...

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...