Collaborative Research on Global Corporate Structures and Attributions of Responsibility and Wrongdoing

全球企业结构及责任和过错归属的合作研究

• 批准号: 9113914
• 负责人: Joseph Sanders
• 金额: $ 9.95万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-01-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9113914&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Global; Corporate; Structures

Many of the most serious misdeeds in modern societies are committed not by individuals acting for personal gain, but by members of organizations obeying orders from authority. These acts are sometimes called "crimes of obedience" and globally seem to be a consequence of the growth of bureaucracy. While we surmise that within organizations there are differing and even changing conceptions of responsibility, corporate crime, and what should be done in the face of such wrongdoing, there is little known about these attitudes and the conditions that lead to accountability. The study being undertaken by Hamilton and Sanders directly examines such issues. The research explores how responsibility and sanctions for wrongdoing in organizations are affected by the global dispersal of corporate forms. Three different cultures, U.S., Japanese, and Soviet, representing contrasting legal and economic environments (marked capitalism, corporate capitalism, and socialism) are the sites for assessing the impact of different organizational forms on individual behavior. Based on a survey design that systematically varies vignettes according to key characteristics of organizational structure, the study examines perceptions of individual and corporate responsibility as separate matters, yet within the context of three contrasting economic systems. This design allows for the isolation of political, economic, and cultural influences and the effects of global changes in organizations on attributions of responsibility, perceptions of wrongdoing, and attitudes toward social control. The research has considerable potential to yield important knowledge not only about attribution theories but also about organizational compliance, regulation, and social control in a transnational context.

现代社会中许多最严重的罪行都是由 不是由个人为个人利益行事，而是由成员 服从权威命令的组织。 这些行为是 有时被称为"服从的罪行"，在全球范围内似乎是一个 这是官僚主义发展的结果。 当我们观察到 在组织内部， 责任的概念，公司犯罪，以及应该做什么 面对这样的恶行，人们所知甚少。 这些态度和条件导致问责制。 汉密尔顿和桑德斯直接进行的研究 审查这些问题。 该研究探讨了责任和 对组织中不当行为的制裁受到 公司形式的全球分散。 三种不同的文化， 美国，日本和苏联，代表着对比鲜明的法律的和 经济环境（标记资本主义，公司资本主义， 社会主义）是评估不同社会主义影响的场所 组织形式对个人行为的影响。 调查为基础 根据按键系统地改变小插图的设计 组织结构的特点，研究审查 个人责任和公司责任是分开的 然而，在三个不同的经济背景下， 系统. 这种设计允许隔离政治， 经济和文化影响以及全球变化的影响 关于责任归属、 以及对社会控制的态度。 这项研究 相当大的潜力不仅可以产生有关 归因理论以及组织顺从性， 监管和跨国背景下的社会控制。