The vigilante identity and organizations

• Main Authors: CHEN, Fan Xuan, GRASO, Maja, AQUINO, Karl, LIN, Lily, CHENG, Joey T., DeCelles, Katherine, VADERA, Abhijeet K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Identity; Justice; Punishment; Social order; Vigilantism; Applied Behavior Analysis; Civic and Community Engagement; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6974; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7973/viewcontent/VigilanteIdentity_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We test the theoretical and practical utility of the vigilante identity, a self-perception of being the kind of person who monitors their environment for signs of norm violations, and who punishes the perceived norm violator, without formal authority. We develop and validate a measure of the vigilan...