Control aversion in hierarchies
BP2-STS
- Herz, Holger ORCID Universitär Freiburg
- de Chiara, Alessandro University of Barcelona
- Manna, Ester University of Barcelona
- Engl, Florian Universität Regensburg
- 2025
Published in:
- 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
English
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.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département d'économie politique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- License
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CC BY-NC-ND
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334083
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