Organizations often respond to institutional pressures by symbolically adopting policies and procedures but decoupling them from actual practice. Literature has examined why organizations decouple from regulatory pressures. In this study, we argue that decoupling occurs within regulatory...

Our study investigates whether and how unfulfilled goals on an unrelated forthcoming task, negatively affect employee performance on the current task. We draw upon the theory of intrusion and predict that unfulfilled goals on the forthcoming task cause intrusive thoughts that decrease the...

I examine whether political influence as a response to voters' interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to experience SEC enforcement actions. Next, I examine whether...