De Chiara, Alessandro and Engl, Florian and Herz, Holger and Manna, Ester (2025) Control aversion in hierarchies. JOURNAL OF LAW ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION. ISSN 8756-6222, 1465-7341
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HIDDEN COSTS; WORK EFFORT; AUTHORITY; COMMUNICATION; COORDINATION; DELEGATION; TRUST; C92; D23; M12 |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Divisions: | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie > Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspsychologie und -Ethiki - Prof. Dr. Florian |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2026 06:53 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2026 06:53 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66794 |
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