Partners in crime: the effects of diversity on the longevity of cartels

• Autores: Olivier Bertrand, Fabrice Lumineau
• Localización: Academy of management journal, ISSN-e 0001-4273, Vol. 59, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 983-1008
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Despite the importance of organizational misconduct, still not much is known about coordinated misconduct between firms. In this study, we seek a better understanding of how the profile of the partners involved in cartels affects the longevity of their joint misconduct activities. Drawing upon diversity theory, we leverage a distinction between three types of diversity--variety of age-based experience, separation in uncertainty avoidance, and power disparity--in collective organizational misconduct between firms, and study their respective influence on the longevity of cartels. Our empirical analysis gives support to our main arguments: the longevity of cartels tends to be increased by the level of variety of age-based experience and power disparity between partners but reduced by their level of separation in uncertainty avoidance. Implications for the literature on organizational misconduct are discussed