Internally reporting risk in financial services: an empirical analysis

Bryce, Cormac, Chmura, Thorsten, Webb, Robert, Stiebale, Joel and Cheevers, Carly (2017) Internally reporting risk in financial services: an empirical analysis. Journal of Business Ethics . ISSN 1573-0697

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Abstract

The enduring failure of financial institutions to identify and deal with risk events continues to have serious repercussions, whether in the form of small but significant losses or major and potentially far-reaching scandals. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines an innovative version of the classic dictator game to inform prosocial tendencies with the survey based Theory of Planned Behaviour, we examine the risk-escalation behaviour of individuals within a large financial institution. We discover evidence of purely selfish behaviour that explains the lack significance in pressure to adhere to the subjective norms of colleagues around intention to report risks. A finding that has potentially important implications for efforts to instil a high-error management climate and incentivise risk reporting within organisations where risk, if ignored or unchecked, could ultimately have consequences that extend far beyond the institutions themselves.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/857291
Keywords: Risk Escalation, Dictator Game, Meta-Analysis, Error-Management Climate
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3530-6
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 24 Apr 2017 10:13
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:42
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/42193

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