We integrate research on family-owned firms (FOFs) and the Behavioral Theory of Firm (BTOF) to study wrongdoing—a specific dimension corporate social responsibility (CSR) associated with destructive risk—in family- versus nonfamily-owned (NFOFs). argue that FOFs are likely respond differently from NFOFs risks because in addition concern for economic costs benefits, uniquely concerned socioemoti...

Peer review is not a fraud detection system. Referees are likely to detect some wrongdoing, such as copying someone else’s research or misrepresenting data, because they care about their subject. They know what research has been conducted already and the kinds of results that are likely. However, if someone deliberately sets out to falsify data, there is sometimes no way of knowing this until t...

Abstract Recent examples of organizational wrongdoing such as those that led to the opioid crisis and 2008 financial meltdown show organizations can deliberately use information deceive others, resulting in serious harm. This brief communication explores role wrongdoing. We analyze a dataset consisting 80 cases high‐penalty corporate United States period 2000–2020. Our analysis documents filed ...

Abstract Both in everyday life and moral philosophy, many think that our own past wrongdoing can undermine standing to indignantly blame others for similar wrongdoing. In recent literature on the ethics of blame, we find two different kinds explanation this. Relative status accounts hold have you must be better than person are blaming, terms compliance with norm. Fault-based those who things wh...

Online social networks (OSNs) are often flooded with scathing remarks against individuals or businesses on their perceived wrongdoing. This paper studies three such events to get insight into various aspects of shaming done through twitter. An important contribution of our work is categorization of shaming tweets, which helps in understanding the dynamics of spread of online shaming events. It ...