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Christopher B Yenkey

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ID229644
NAMEChristopher B Yenkey
GIVEN NAMESChristopher B
FAMILY NAMEYenkey
SIGNATUREYENKEY C B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Carolina
ORCID0000-0002-4757-1017
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1
  • The Outsider's Advantage: Distrust as a Deterrent to Exploitation

    Christopher B Yenkey•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 84

    Trust creates vulnerability to exploitation. This article approaches this paradox by comparing the exploitability of categorical trust within social groups to the deterrent effect of categorical distrust between rival groups. The empirical setting is a 2008 stockbrokerage fraud perpetrated on an ethnically diverse population of investors in Kenya’s Nairobi Securities Exchange. As expected, investors prefer brokerages operated by coethnics and avo…

  • Drugs, Sweat, and Gears: An Organizational Analysis of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in the 2010 Tour de France

    Donald Palmer, Christopher B Yenkey•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2015

    This paper seeks a more comprehensive explanation of wrongdoing in organizations by theorizing two underexplored causes of wrongdoing related to an organizational participant's embeddedness in formal organizational structures and informal peer relationships: the criticality of a person's role in their organization's division of labor, and their social ties to deviant peers within their organization and industry who vary with respect to their expe…

  • The Outsider's Advantage: Distrust as a Deterrent to Exploitation

    Christopher B Yenkey•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 84

    Trust creates vulnerability to exploitation. This article approaches this paradox by comparing the exploitability of categorical trust within social groups to the deterrent effect of categorical distrust between rival groups. The empirical setting is a 2008 stockbrokerage fraud perpetrated on an ethnically diverse population of investors in Kenya’s Nairobi Securities Exchange. As expected, investors prefer brokerages operated by coethnics and avo…

  • Drugs, Sweat, and Gears: An Organizational Analysis of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in the 2010 Tour de France

    Donald Palmer, Christopher B Yenkey•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2015

    This paper seeks a more comprehensive explanation of wrongdoing in organizations by theorizing two underexplored causes of wrongdoing related to an organizational participant's embeddedness in formal organizational structures and informal peer relationships: the criticality of a person's role in their organization's division of labor, and their social ties to deviant peers within their organization and industry who vary with respect to their expe…

  • The Outsider's Advantage: Distrust as a Deterrent to Exploitation

    Christopher B Yenkey•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 84

    Trust creates vulnerability to exploitation. This article approaches this paradox by comparing the exploitability of categorical trust within social groups to the deterrent effect of categorical distrust between rival groups. The empirical setting is a 2008 stockbrokerage fraud perpetrated on an ethnically diverse population of investors in Kenya’s Nairobi Securities Exchange. As expected, investors prefer brokerages operated by coethnics and avo…

Business (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Categorical variable (1 works) · Computer security (1 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (1 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 works)

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