In our model, self-interested agents prefer to buy from local neighbors rather than from cheaper outside vendors even in the absence of memory and coordination mechanisms. All they know is who is a local neighbor. Buyers voluntarily pay rents because they internalize that their neighbors will be...

Governments and regulators often impose reporting requirements for a specific class of activities, to encourage beneficial corporate behavior by increasing information quality through reporting standards. We find that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports tend to increase the prevalence...

This article offers an in-depth study of self-regulation of a bank’s employee volunteers as a modality of organizational control from the late 1970s onwards. It also seeks to discuss the affinity between these methodical and intentional organizational practices and other parallel formative...