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Moral Reactions to Bribery are Fundamentally Different for Managers Witnessing and Managers Committing Such Acts: Tests of Cognitive-Emotional Explanations of Bribery

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  • Ekta Sharma

    (Ahmedabad University)

  • Richard P. Bagozzi

    (University of Michigan)

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We investigate how paying a bribe or refusing a bribe differs between observing others doing this or committing such acts oneself. Study 1 examines how and when observing others paying a bribe or refusing a bribe leads to actions opposing bribery or supporting anti-bribery. The how question is answered by showing that positive and negative emotions mediate such responses; the when question is answered by demonstrating that empathy and the social self-concept constitute personal conditions for regulating such effects. Study 2 scrutinizes how and when paying a bribe or refusing a bribe leads to actions reducing bribery. Here the mediators pride and shame, and the social self-concept again regulates such effects. Actual managers are the respondents in these two field experiments, with 140 men and women in Study 1 and 207 men and women in Study 2.

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  • Ekta Sharma & Richard P. Bagozzi, 2022. "Moral Reactions to Bribery are Fundamentally Different for Managers Witnessing and Managers Committing Such Acts: Tests of Cognitive-Emotional Explanations of Bribery," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 177(1), pages 95-124, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:177:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s10551-021-04743-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04743-1
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