Applied Ethics and Morality Research Group

In 2021, a research group unique in its interdisciplinary approach to study dis/honesty in organizations was established at the Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Business and Economics. The group includes scholars working in the fields of business ethics, moral psychology, and experimental economics (see our publications). The group uses an in-house laboratory and has a large database of participants.

In addition to research, the group holds regular research seminars and starts to work on the transfer of the-state-of-the-art findings to the business, government and non-profit sectors, and media.

Research Seminars

The schedule of the seminars for fall 2022 is in preparation.

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Our Team

Principal Investigators	Ing. Mgr. et Mgr. Štěpán Bahník, Ph.D. [mail] Head of the research group; Assistant Professor, Department of Management; specializes in judgment and decision-making, social and moral psychology, programming, methodology, and statistical analysis
	doc. Ing. Petr Houdek, Ph.D. [mail] Associate Professor, Department of Management; specializes in behavioral economics
	doc. Ing. Marek Hudík, Ph.D. [mail] Associate Professor at the Department of Managerial Economics; focuses on game theory, microeconomics, and experimental economics
Doctoral Student	Ing. Mgr. Marek Vranka [mail] PhD student in Business Economics and Management; focuses on behavioral interventions, moral and social psychology and participates in replication studies in psychology
Doctoral Student, Team Administrator	Mgr. Nikola Frollová [mail] PhD student in Business Economics and Management; focuses on leadership, managerial decision-making, and psychological interventions; responsible for organization of seminars and laboratory management

Selected Publications

• Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. A. (2022). Experimental test of the effects of punishment probability and size on the decision to take a bribe. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 97, 101813.
• Frollová, N., Vranka, M., & Houdek, P. (2021). A qualitative study of perception of a dishonesty experiment. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(3), 274–290.
• Houdek, P., Bahník, Š., Hudík, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). Selection Effects on Dishonest Behavior. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(2), 238–266.
• Prochazka, J., Fedoseeva, Y., & Houdek, P. (2021). A field experiment on dishonesty: A registered replication of Azar et al. (2013). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, 101617.
• Suseno, Y., Chang, C., Hudík, M., Fang, E., & Liu, N. (2021). Why do employees engage in counterproductive work behaviours? Cultural values and white-collar employees in China. Motivation and Emotion, 45, 397–421.
• Urban, J., Braun Kohlová, M., & Bahník, Š. (2021). No Evidence of Within-Domain Moral Licensing in the Environmental Domain. Environment and Behavior, 53, 1070–1094.
• Vranka, M. A., Hudík, M., Frollová, N., Bahník, Š., Sýkorová, M., & Houdek, P. (2021). Honesty of Online Workers: A Field Experiment shows no Evidence of Self-Selection of Cheaters to a Cheating-enabling Work Environment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 94, 101730.
• Urban, J., Bahník, Š., & Braun Kohlová, M. (2019). Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 139–147.
• Vranka, M., Frollová, N., Pour, M., Novakova, J., & Houdek, P. (2019). Cheating customers in grocery stores: A field study on dishonesty. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 83, 101484.
• Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2018). Predictors of Bribe-Taking: The Role of Bribe Size and Personality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1511.
• Houdek, P. (2017). Is Behavioral Ethics Ready for Giving Business and Policy Advice? Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(1), 48–56.

Ongoing Grants 

• Behavioral Organizational Politics: Experiments in Prosocial Political Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
• Experimental study of predictors of corrupt behavior, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2019-2022
• Testing External Validity of Experiments on Dishonest Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2018-2021

Past Research Seminars

The schedule of the seminars for spring 2022.

The schedule of the seminars for fall 2021.