Robin hood under the hood: Wealth-based discrimination in illicit customer help

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1176-1194

  Gino, Francesca ^a   Pierce, Lamar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Envy; Fraud; Robin hood; Unethical behavior; Wealth based discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649726482     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0498     Document Type: Article

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