Social Distance and Control Aversion : Evidence from the Internet and the Laboratory

Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony

Social Distance and Control Aversion : Evidence from the Internet and the Laboratory

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Datum

2015

Autor:innen

Schmelz, Katrin

Ziegelmeyer, Anthony

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

We test experimentally whether monitoring is less likely to reduce work motivation in distant than in close principal-agent relationships. Employing the same standard subject pool of students, we compare a laboratory and an internet implementation of an experimental principal-agent game where the principal can impose control at two different levels on the agent. Agency relationships are arguably more distant in the internet than in the laboratory setting. We find that differences in agents' effort due to an increase in the level of control are larger in the internet than in the laboratory experiment. The effect is driven by both higher intrinsic motivation and stronger control aversion in the laboratory. Agents' effort differences are fairly stable over time in both experiments which indicates that even experienced agents react more negatively to the implementation of control in the laboratory than on the internet.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

Control; Crowding effects of control; Internet; Motivation; Social distance; Workplace arrangements

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SCHMELZ, Katrin, Anthony ZIEGELMEYER, 2015. Social Distance and Control Aversion : Evidence from the Internet and the Laboratory

BibTex

@techreport{Schmelz2015Socia-32970,
  year={2015},
  series={Research paper series / Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut},
  title={Social Distance and Control Aversion : Evidence from the Internet and the Laboratory},
  number={100},
  author={Schmelz, Katrin and Ziegelmeyer, Anthony}
}

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