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Type | Journal Article |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Title | The limits to moral erosion in markets: Social norms and the replacement excuse |
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Item Subtype | Original Work |
Refereed | Yes |
Status | Published in final form |
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Journal Title | Games and Economic Behavior |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Geographical Reach | international |
ISSN | 0899-8256 |
Volume | 138 |
Page Range | 143 - 160 |
Date | 2023 |
Abstract Text | This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor might step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. In a series of experiments, we study whether people invoke the replacement excuse, that is, the argument “if I don't do it, someone else will,” to justify narrowly self-interested actions. Our data are consistent with the possibility that the existence of a clear social norm of moral conduct can limit the impact of the availability of the replacement excuse on behavior. |
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Digital Object Identifier | 10.1016/j.geb.2022.12.001 |
Other Identification Number | merlin-id:23112 |
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Keywords | Economics and Econometrics, Finance / Replacement excuse, social norms, moral behavior, competition, markets, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, Geschäftsidee, Unternehmensethik, Soziale Norm, Utilitarismus, Moralisches Handeln |