Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry

By Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Michel André Maréchal. Nature, 2014

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Safety Research

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Language and Consumer Dishonesty: A Self-Diagnosticity Theory (2021, background): “Past research shows that performance goals constitute a reason to condone dishonest deeds (Cohn et al. 2014; Pulfrey and Butera 2013).”
Corruption in organizations: Ethical climate and individual motives (2018, background): “experimental study provides the first evidence that business culture causally affects employees’ unethical behavior (Cohn et al. 2014).”
Priming in Economics (2016, background): “[36] extended the approach to study unethical conduct in the banking industry.”
Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self (2016, background): “Cohn, Fehr, and Marechal (2014) had bank employees’ reflect on their professional identity or activities unrelated to their job.”
The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment (2018, methodology): “In our experimental design, we build on studies of PSM activation (Pedersen 2015), social identity theory (Akerlof and Kranton 2000; Brown 1986; Tajfel and Turner 2004), as well as insights from question order survey experiments in other disciplines (e.g., Cohn, Fehr, and Maréchal 2014).”
Preferences for Truth‐Telling (2016, background): “For example, Cohn et al. (2014) study bankers who might be aware of the bad reputation bankers currently have and might try to show to the world that bankers are indeed much more honest than people think.”
Why Do We Lie? A Practical Guide To The Dishonesty Literature (2018, methodology): “One study has attempted to investigate this: Cohn et al. (2014) ran a study with bankers after they had completed their education and had entered the job market.”
Rankings and Risk-Taking in the Finance Industry (2018, unknown): “Similar to other studies (List and Haigh, 2005; Alevy et al., 2007; Cohn et al., 2014), we scaled down student stakes to 1/3 of the professionals’ payoffs in all parts of the experiment.”
Banking on Trust: How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More (2017, background): “Cohn, Fehr, and Maréchal (2014) provide evidence that the banking industry fosters a culture of dishonesty relative to other industries.”
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Process Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work (2015, result): “This certainly seems to have been the case with the recent study of bankers, who became more selfish in an experimental game when their identities as bankers were made salient (Cohn et al., 2014).”
Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital (2016, background): “A recent literature suggests that subjects with business, economics or finance backgrounds are more likely to be dishonest than others (Cohn et al., 2014; López-Pérez and Spiegelman, 2012; Dasgupta and Menon, 2011).”