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Spread of Unethical Behavior in Organizations: A Dynamic Social Network Perspective

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Abstract

The spread of unethical behavior in organizations has mainly been studied in terms of processes occurring in a general social context, rather than in terms of actors’ reactions in the context of their specific social relationships. This paper introduces a dynamic social network analysis framework in which this spread is conceptualized as the result of the reactions of perpetrators, victims, and observers to an initial act of unethical behavior. This theoretical framework shows that the social relationships of the actors involved in an initial act impact in multiple ways the likelihood that unethical behavior spreads. It reveals furthermore that social relationships may change in the wake of unethical behavior, such that indirect negative consequences can arise for organizations. The proposed framework provides a basis for the development of a formal stochastic actor-oriented model of network dynamics which would enable simulations of the spread of unethical behavior.

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Margolis (2001) provides an insightful discussion on the relationship between causal and moral responsibility involving both normative arguments on moral agency and descriptive arguments on psychological and social forces in organizations. I do not repeat this discussion here due to limitations of space, and instead refer the reader to Margolis’ article.

When referring to victims and victimization, it may be useful to distinguish two dimensions. The first dimension refers to the (objective) damage caused to a person by another person’s act (“damage caused”), and the second dimension refers to the (subjective) awareness and perception of this damage (“victimization perceived”). From the perspective of reactions by victims, and the potential spread of unethical behavior, the second dimension is most relevant and therefore referred to in this paper.

They also note, however, that confession can increase rather than reduce unethical behavior in the longer run because perpetrators know that they will be able to restore their moral self-concept after unethical behavior (Ayal and Gino 2012, pp. 156–157).

I thank an anonymous reviewer for highlighting these requirements for the specification of a formal model.

For example, Snijders et al. (2013, p. 272) report a negative outdegree popularity effect in friendship and advice networks, meaning that an actor’s current number of outgoing relationships in these networks negatively impacts the probability that this actor retains existing or receives new incoming relationships, and thus conversely increases the probability that existing incoming relationships are terminated (see also Snijders et al. 2013, p. 271).

I thank an anonymous reviewer for highlighting the possibility of such role-dependencies based on actors’ individual attributes.

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Titel: Spread of Unethical Behavior in Organizations: A Dynamic Social Network Perspective
verfasst von: Franziska Zuber
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2270-0

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