The Normalization of Deviant Organizational Practices: Wage Arrears in Russia, 1991–98
研究了1990年代俄罗斯企业普遍存在的非法工资拖欠现象,发现越轨行为在群体中越常见,企业越可能效仿,受害方也越少反对。
We apply a normalization of deviance model to understand the prevalence of the illegal practice of wage arrears, the delayed payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Viewing organizational deviance as potentially self-reinforcing, we hypothesize that the frequent adoption of a deviant practice within a community makes it more likely that firms in that community will engage in deviance and less likely that injured stakeholders will oppose it. Our empirical analysis of wage arrears in Russia, based on panel data from a large, nationally representative sample of agricultural and industrial enterprises, supports our hypotheses.