Decentralized regulation has become increasingly important in many areas; examples range from school vouchers to workplace safety committees to alternative dispute resolution procedures replacing courts. Consistent with this trend, in 1993 California permitted construction unions and employers...

Do people care about intentions . even when good intentions do not produce good results? While the aphorism in the paper.s title suggests that outcomes matter more than intentions, our study questions that assumption. Our experimental design builds on previous studies of intentions by...

Employee diversity may affect business performance both as a result of customer discrimination and as a result of how members of a group work with each other in teams. We test for both channels with data from more than 800 retail stores employing over 70,000 individuals, matched to Census data...

When is sabotage acceptable? We use a quasi-experimental design to study the acceptability of several forms of rule-breaking at work. We find retaliation is perceived as more acceptable if it is an act of omission instead of an act commission and if it is in the same "domain" as the employer's...