Costly information acquisition: The influence of stakeholder earnings

Information is often acquired within organizations that generate earnings for employees and stakeholders. In this paper we analyze the causal effects of inequality on information acquisition performance and vary the pay of agents relative to the earnings of passive stakeholders. Our experimental res...

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Published inJournal of economic psychology Vol. 90; p. 102504
Main Authors Heinrich, Timo, Arya, Bindu, Haering, Alexander, Horak, Sven
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.06.2022
Subjects
Information acquisition
Pay inequality
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Information acquisition
Pay inequality
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Summary:Information is often acquired within organizations that generate earnings for employees and stakeholders. In this paper we analyze the causal effects of inequality on information acquisition performance and vary the pay of agents relative to the earnings of passive stakeholders. Our experimental results reveal that disadvantageous inequality does not have a negative effect on agents’ performance.
ISSN:0167-4870
1872-7719
DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2022.102504