Using a lab experiment, we investigate how internal transparency affects the tendency of employees to initiate collusive efforts with colleagues from other departments in an organization. Building on behavioral economics theory, we argue that employees who are treated unkindly by their managers...

Principals make decisions on various issues, ranging from contract design to control system implementation. Few studies examine the principal's active role in these decisions. We experimentally investigate this role by studying how a principal's choice for a truth-telling incentive contract,...

We experimentally examine whether ranking employees on a social dimension can help them learn something about their self-concept and can foster better ethical decisions afterwards. We examine this question in the context of popular employee-giving programs, whereby proponents argue that such...