Brown, Jason L.; Fisher, Joseph G.; Sooy, Matthew; … - In: Accounting, Organizations and Society 39 (2014) 4, pp. 237-246
We conduct an experiment to investigate the effect of rankings, which are pervasive in practice, on the honesty of managers’ budget reports, which is important for sound decision making in organizations. Participants in our experiment are ranked in one of four ways: (1) firm profit, (2) own...