North American research suggests that agency (specifically, asymmetric information and incentive to shirk) and prospect theories may explain project escalation decisions. We explored the generalizability of these theories in this context. The willingness of managers from North America (U.S. and...

This study investigates how relative performance information (RPI) and peers' rule-breaking affect an employee's own rule-breaking in both the absence and presence of weak formal controls. We vary the presence of RPI (absent vs. present), the level of peers' rule-breaking (low vs. high), and the...