It's Not What You Do, But Who You Are: Informal Social Control, Social Status, and Normative Seriousness in Organizations

摘要: This paper analyzes the impact of managerial social status on normative evaluation acts in organizational contexts. We test several propositions relationship between and derived from Donald Black's theoretical framework control. The research design consists a factorial survey 200 managers. Each respondent evaluated seriousness normatively questionable act. In each vignette, perpetrator's was systematically manipulated either high or low condition. results generally support argument that higher manager's less vulnerable individual is to unfavorable evaluations, holding constant closes with discussion our findings light structural rational choice perspectives informal control organizations. Additionally, we discuss methodological issues related experimental organizations, consistency those previous studies across diverse settings, potential applications extensions contexts, practical implications for implementation corporate codes conduct dispute resolution systems.