{"id":139218,"date":"2021-03-23T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbe.hku.hk\/?p=139218&#038;post_type=event&#038;preview_id=139218"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:34:25","slug":"the-contaminating-effect-of-social-capital-how-upper-class-networks-increased-unethical-behavior-by-dr-jiyin-cao","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/event\/the-contaminating-effect-of-social-capital-how-upper-class-networks-increased-unethical-behavior-by-dr-jiyin-cao\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contaminating Effect of social capital: How upper-class networks increased unethical behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Speaker:<\/h4>\n<h4>Dr. Jiyin Cao<\/h4>\n<h4><span>Assistant Professor, Management<\/span><br \/>\nStony Brook University<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract:<\/h4>\n<p>Having friends in high places is often considered necessary to achieve success. Indeed, connections with upper-class individuals have been identified as a key component of social capital. Despite the tangible benefits upper-class network contacts can offer, we find that these networks have a dark side: the increased potential for unethical behavior, over and above one\u2019s own social class. We propose that because upper-class individuals are less constrained by social norms, individuals with many upper-class contacts will perceive their network as having looser social norms. As a result, individuals with upper-class network ties will view morality as more relative and will be more likely to engage in unethical behavior. To test our core hypothesis that having upper-class contacts increases unethical behavior, we conducted five multi-method (archival, field, quasi-experimental, and experimental) studies involving a range of samples (CEOs, nationally representative adults, student roommates) in multiple cultures. Overall, the current research takes a property of networks (its class composition), links it to perceptions of that network (the perceived norm looseness of one\u2019s network contacts) and connects it to a psychological mindset (moral relativism) that ultimately affects unethical behavior. These findings demonstrate that the benefits of social capital also carry a moral cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139218","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","seminar-categories-management-and-strategy-sc","seminar-types-seminar-sc","event-natures-seminar-calendar","event-natures-sc-management-seminar-calendar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/139218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/139218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139315,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/139218\/revisions\/139315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}