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dc.contributor.authorPiskorski, Mikołaj Jan
dc.contributor.authorGorbatai, Andreea
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-30T10:12:24Z
dc.date.available2021-11-30T10:12:24Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.identifier.issn0002-9602
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/6990
dc.description.abstractSince Durkheim, sociologists have believed that actors in dense network structures experience fewer norm violations. Coleman proposed one explanatory mechanism, arguing that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm violators, leading to more frequent punishment and in turn fewer norm violations. Despite ubiquitous scholarly references to Coleman’s theory, little empirical work has directly tested it in large-scale natural settings with longitudinal data. The authors undertake such a test using records of norm violations during the editing process on Wikipedia, the largest user-generated online encyclopedia. These data allow them to track all three elements required to test Coleman’s mechanism: norm violations, punishments for such violations, and rewards for those who punish violations. The results support Coleman’s mechanism.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniv Chicago Pressen_US
dc.titleTesting Coleman’s Social Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipediaen_US
dc.identifier.journalAmerican Journal of Sociologyen_US
dc.source.volume122en_US
dc.source.issue4en_US
dc.source.beginpage1183en_US
dc.source.endpage1222en_US
dc.contributor.departmentInternational Institute for Management Developmenten_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of California, Berkeleyen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1537-5390
vlerick.knowledgedomainEntrepreneurshipen_US
vlerick.typearticleJournal article with impact factoren_US
vlerick.vlerickdepartmentEGSen_US
dc.identifier.vperid292767en_US


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