Selection, Payment, and Information Assessment in Social Audits: A Behavioral Experiment

The authors thank Vishal Agrawal (guest department editor), the anonymous associate editor, two anonymous reviewers, as well as Anyan Qi, Bernardo Quiroga, Aditya Vedantam, and Alistair Wilson for their constructive feedback. The authors are also thankful to the staff at the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL) at the University of Pittsburgh for their support in conducting the experimental sessions. This work greatly benefited from attendees’ comments at the 2023 Behavioral Operations Management Summer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts), the 2023 Behavioral Operations Conference (Baltimore, Maryland), the 2024 Behavioral Operations Conference (Boulder, Colorado), the 2024 Early-Career Sustainable Operations Management Workshop (Lincoln, Nebraska), the 2025 conference ‘Creating Resilient Organizations: Evidence from research on sustainability’ (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), a PEEL brown-bag seminar, and a research seminar at the West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics. Finally, the authors thank the Dean’s office and the Center for Sustainable Business at the University of Pittsburgh School of Business for their financial support.