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Control Aversion in Hierarchies

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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.

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Treballadors, Directius, Relacions laborals, Jerarquia normativa

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Workers, Executives, Industrial relations, Hierarchy of norms

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DE CHIARA, Alessandro, et al. Control Aversion in Hierarchies. Journal of Law. Economics. Vol.  & Organization, num. 2025. ISSN 8756-6222. [consulted: 13 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227818

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