Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal

Nature, 2014, vol. 516, issue 7529, 86-89

Abstract: According to popular opinion, unethical business practices are common in the financial industry; here, the employees of a large, international bank are shown to behave, on average, honestly in a laboratory game to reveal dishonest behaviour, but when their professional identity as bank employees was rendered salient, the prevalence of dishonest behaviour increased.

Date: 2014
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