Deonance and Distrust: Motivated Third Party Information Seeking Following Disclosure of an Agent’s Unethical Behavior

This article explores the hypothesis that third parties are motivated to seek information about agents who have behaved unethically in the past, even if the agent and available information are irrelevant to the third parties’ goals and interests. We explored two possible motives for this information...

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Authors: Bell, Chris M. (Author) ; Main, Kelley J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2011
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 102, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-96
Further subjects:B consumer decision making
B Deonance
B Unethical Behavior
B information seeking
B Distrust
B Moral Reasoning
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