Herz, Holger de Chiara, Alessandro Manna, Ester Engl, Florian 2025 Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this article, we investigate whether the hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing reaction. In particular, we conduct a laboratory experiment to test whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when they are implemented by a direct superior rather than a hierarchically more distant superior. We find that hierarchical proximity indeed magnifies such control aversion and discuss several potential channels for this result. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/334083 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/334083/files/dechiaraetal-controlaversioninhierarchies-jleo.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/jleo/ewaf013 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC BY-NC-ND The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. - Oxford University Press. - 2025, vol. 00, p. 1-21 Control Hierarchies Laboratory, Group Behavior Organizational Behavior, Transaction Costs and Property Rights Personnel Management, Executives and Executive Compensation info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Control aversion in hierarchies http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501