Expense report abuse: influence of mood and social presence Online publication date: Sat, 07-Feb-2015
by Caroline O. Ford; Jacob C. Peng
International Journal of Economics and Business Research (IJEBR), Vol. 9, No. 2, 2015
Abstract: This paper examines the impact of mood and social presence of communication medium on ethical decision making within an expense reporting setting. Based on theoretical accounting research (Gaudine and Thorne, 2001), we predict that negative mood will result in more unethical expense reporting. From the social presence literature (Bazerman et al., 2000), we anticipate that an online reporting system will result in more unethical behaviour due to its low social presence, as opposed to face-to-face expense reporting with high social presence. Our findings confirm these predictions and interestingly discover that communication medium mediates the effect of mood, whereas the debriefing techniques had very little effect. Implications of these results and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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