Controls and the Asymmetric Stickiness of Norms

We thank Karen L. Sedatole (editor), as well as two anonymous reviewers for this journal. We appreciate helpful comments and suggestions from anonymous reviewers from the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting and the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, and from Jeremy Bentley, Alisa Brinks, Willie Choi, Karie Davis-Nozemack, Karim Jamal, Kathryn Kadous, Michael Maier, Erin Marshall, Greg Richins, Greg Rudin, Florin Şabac, Steve Smith, Doug Stevens, Bryan Stikeleather, and David Wood, as well as workshop participants at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Brigham Young University's Accounting Research Symposium, Brigham Young University's Faculty Ethics Conference, Emory University's Experiment-Based-Research Brownbag, Global Management Accounting Research Symposium, Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, University of Notre Dame's Excellence in Ethics Research Conference, and the University of Alberta.

This study received the Excellence in Ethics Best Paper Award, presented by the Excellence in Ethics Research Conference at the University of Notre Dame.

Editor's note: Accepted by Karen L. Sedatole, under the Senior Editorship of Teri Lombardi Yohn.