Why 'Good' Firms Do Bad Things: The Effects of High Aspirations, High Expectations and Prominence on the Incidence of Corporate Illegality

By Yuri Mishina, B. J. Dykes, Emily S. Block, Timothy G. Pollock. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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The role of information asymmetry in the choice of entrepreneurial exit routes (2014, background): “…at 1 for the secondary sector (all other sector dummies were set at 0), the nationality dummy at 1 for Germany (the Switzerland dummy was set at 0), and the values for all of the other variables at their means (see also Mishina et al., 2010) thus following best practice (Long and Freese, 2005).”
Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals (2012, background): “Fourth, researchers are only beginning to attempt to integrate concepts and frameworks from other theories (Audia & Brion, 2007; Mishina et al., 2010).”
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects (2012, background): “A relation from performance to organizational fraud has been suggested, as organizations under pressure to obtain or retain satisfactory performance levels may resort to accounting violations or other misconduct (Greve, Palmer, & Pozner, 2010 ; Harris & Bromiley, 2007 ; Mishina, Dykes, Block, & Po”
Getting What You Need: How Reputation and Status Affect Team Performance, Hiring, and Salaries in the NBA (2013, background): “…has used a combination of the two, the performance to be measured was often market share or return on assets (e.g., Baum et al., 2005; Greve, 1998; Mishina et al., 2010; Mitsuhashi & Greve, 2009), where the average performance of all firms or firms in a peer group, i.e., for a social comparison,…”
A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations (2017, background): “…on stakeholder concerns (Bundy et al., 2013), scandal (Graffin et al., 2013), university infractions (Zavyalova et al., 2016), illegal activity (Mishina et al., 2010), product recalls (Rhee & Haunschild, 2006; Zavyalova et al., 2012), boycotts (McDonnell & King, 2013), and crisis (Bundy &…”
Company reputation and the cost of equity capital (2014, unknown): “…(2005), Anderson and Smith (2006), Luo and Bhattacharya (2006), Luo and Donthu (2006), Kalaignanam et al. (2007), King (2008), Chen et al. (2009), Love and Kraatz (2009), Still and Strang (2009), Mishina et al. (2010), Pfarrer et al. (2010), Surroca et al. (2010), and Philippe and Durand (2011).”
Managerial Risk Taking (2016, unknown): “The role of external analysts in shaping managerial reference frames has been also examined in several studies (e.g., Mishina et al., 2010; Morrow et al., 2007).”
A Meta-Analytic Review of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance (2016, background): “Many of the firms involved in corporate scandals, such as Arthur Andersen, Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and several leading investment banks, were generally viewed as high-performing companies until their scandals were uncovered (Mishina et al., 2010).”
Playing dirty or building capability? Corruption and HR training as competitive actions to threats from informal and foreign firm rivals (2016, methodology): “In sum, firms in emerging markets face significant competitive threats from foreign firms.”
From Doing Good to Looking Even Better: The Dynamics of CSR and Reputation (2019, background): “252), underlining the “doubleedged sword” of the need to meet such rising expectations (Mishina et al., 2010).”