Double Dipping: Explaining Academic Fraud within the Academy of Management

Abstract

We develop a theoretical framework and provide empirical evidence about determinants of academic fraud associated with violating submission guidelines for the 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Drawing from the fraud triangle, we find that when faced with the opportunity certain aspects of the social context in which academy members are embedded may motivate some individuals to commit academic fraud. This outcome is consistent with the incentive/pressure element of the fraud triangle. Specifically, our results show that the incidence of violating submission guidelines are greater for tenure-track scholars who have yet to achieve tenure and for those currently affiliated with a research intensive university support these arguments. We also find that authors who received their highest educational degree in countries with higher levels of corruption are more likely to violate the submission rules, supporting our theoretical logic that this national contextual element influences researcher views towar...