hey guys, if you can help me get lit on social norms, that would be great. i've checked everywhere- google scholar, e-lib, library catalogue, can't find a thing - only one journal which takes a quantitative economics approach - which isn't really helping.

Cheers,
J.

It might be helpful first to find exact definition of social norms in some kind of Encyclopedia of SOcial sciences, it will also give you main authors and their works. Then after reading them you might be able to do more precise search.

thanks. though i've never heard of such an encyclopaedia. i'll look for it.

It's not exactly an academic reference, but the Economist website has some tips for people doing business in different cities.

Here is the section on London
http://www.economist.com/cities/Displayobject.cfm?obj_id=1603251

And you can look at a number of different cities from the drop down menu.

Might get you started at least...

I didnt mean a particular encyclopedia but there is International Ecyclopedia of Social and Behavioral sciences and some others...

hey, perhaps you could look up publications by Prof. Ernst Fehr who is big in social values (not norms but I suppose it is related) in ecnomical theory. some of his team do social norms/values in business. i know some of these people which is why I know, but don't know their exact work. you could check out Dr. Lorenz Götte and Christian Zehnder, there should be more. You can find names on their webpage http://www.iew.unizh.ch/index.en.html, or perhaps better http://www.iew.unizh.ch/institute/chairs/fehr/index.en.php, also working papers.
hope that helps. if you'd say more about what you need and what for, i could ask and give more exact pointers.

thanks verdy and shani - i will look into the stuff you have pointed out.