Misconduct in organizations pursuing social missions : three essays
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Organizations, even those pursuing social missions, occasionally engage in misconduct: they cross moral boundaries with their actions. Existing theories of misconduct, developed primarily in the for-profit and political sectors, do not explicitly consider the role of an organization's social mission in understanding the ripple effects of misconduct events. This is an important omission as features of organizations pursuing social missions -- such as the structural challenges of accountability for social performance and the different bases of valuation for these organizations -- suggest that misconduct would affect them differently. This dissertation takes a first step in assessing this claim by developing theoretical predictions for the effects of misconduct by organizations pursuing social missions and the mechanisms through which these effects unfold. I draw on research on the motivations that drive stakeholders to support these organizations from sociology, organizational behavior, behavioral economics, and psychology to construct my arguments. My review of these literatures suggests that misconduct should be especially detrimental for support of these organizations. To empirically test my arguments, I analyze two novel datasets of misconduct in the social sector. In my analyses, I focus on three targeted questions for which I expect there should be differences: 1) How are different types of external stakeholders affected? 2) How does organization performance moderate potential effects? 3) How does misconduct affect actors inside of these organizations? Surprisingly, I find the conditions under which misconduct events affect support for organizations pursuing social missions to be rather limited. I discuss some of the potential reasons for this as well as areas for future inquiry.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Model, Jacob |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. |
| Primary advisor | Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Thesis advisor | Rao, Hayagreeva, 1959- |
| Advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Advisor | Rao, Hayagreeva, 1959- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jacob Model. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Jacob Model
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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