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Don't patronize me! An experiment on preferences for authorship

Do people only reject interference and keep control to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem—although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information available to the interfering party (paternalist). Subjects do not resist to show to the paternalist that they were able to find the correct solution. Instead, two motives seem to play a role. First, subjects prefer to have produced or “authored” the solution themselves. Second, subjects desire to signal their authorship and hence their independence to the paternalist.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy ; ISSN: 1530-9134 ; Volume: 29 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 420-438 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lübbecke, Silvia
Schnedler, Wendelin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Wiley
(where)
Hoboken, NJ
(when)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1111/jems.12347
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  • Lübbecke, Silvia
  • Schnedler, Wendelin
  • Wiley

Time of origin

  • 2020

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