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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers

By: Charles C.Y. Wang
This paper explores a natural experiment setup from the 2003-2004 mutual fund scandals to evaluate the effectiveness of implicit regulation on financial markets behavior. On average, buy-and-hold investors lost 218 basis points annually from 1998 to 2002 to market... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Market Timing; United States
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  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as the Italian fashion industry's move toward self-regulation to discourage the hiring of dangerously... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January–February 2024
  • Article

The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions
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  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short
  • March 2015 (Revised March 2016)
  • Background Note

Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century?

By: Rebecca Henderson, Amram Migdal and Tony He
Industry self-regulation has, in general, a lousy track record. Many studies have shown that it is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as... View Details
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  • February 2005 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

PCAOB, The (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
Members of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board--a private-sector, nonprofit body created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002--must determine the form and content of a new auditing standard on internal control that will fulfill the requirements of Section 404 of the... View Details
Keywords: Law; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Standards; Government Administration; Accounting Audits
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  • 28 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 28

  Working PapersNone this week   PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Proceedings of ICEC'09 (forthcoming). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Abstract Widely used online "trust"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2025
  • Chapter

Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 25 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

Keywords: by Andrew King & Michael W. Toffel
  • Article

Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data

By: Sakis Kotsantonis and George Serafeim
As the ESG finance field and the use of ESG data in investment decision-making continue to grow, the authors seek to shed light on several important aspects of ESG measurement and data. This article is intended to provide a useful guide for the rapidly rising number of... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Reporting; Data Analytics; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; CSR; Transparency; Investment Management; Socially Responsible Investing; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Development; Inclusion; Inclusive Growth; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Investment; Management; Climate Change; Corporate Governance; Diversity; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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  • 2012
  • White Paper

Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Spurred by the anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective compliance.... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2022
  • Article

Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300–1600

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through... View Details
Keywords: Copyright; History; Europe
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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1603484 October 2014 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator

Keywords: by Jodi L. Short & Michael W. Toffel
  • June 30, 2020
  • Article

Scaling Up Behavioral Science Interventions in Online Education

By: Rene F. Kizilcec, Justin Reich, Michael Yeomans, Christoph Dann, Emma Brunskill, Glenn Lopez, Selen Turkay, Joseph J. Williams and Dustin Tingley
Online education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals. Several behavioral science interventions have shown promise in raising student persistence and... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Behavioral Interventions; Scale; Education; Online Technology; Performance Improvement
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  • 07 Dec 2021
  • Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

self-regulate that comes from examining their skills puts leaders in a place of greater agency that allows them to more fully deliver their Knowledge. Implementation of the Framework How can organizations translate the MSK Framework into... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

control—it creates an environment in which individuals regulate themselves in ways helpful to the organization and to themselves. But empowering individuals to self-regulate requires that the company trust them and grant them a measure of... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 05 Jun 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

society This would go a long way to self-regulation " Other comments expressed a need for protections afforded by regulation, but were skeptical that they could be implemented. William Cottinger, based on his past experience with the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

feel an Orwellian disease. Self-regulation within the industry seems to be the answer to the privacy question at this juncture, but Al Silk points out that given that "a series of people have fallen off the wagon," more formal... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Specialized Knowledge As A Public Good; Renunciation Of Profit Maximization To be able to set and enforce standards of admission to a profession, determine how professional work is to be done, engage in self-regulation rather than be... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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