Signaling and Stakeholder Honesty: On the Individual and Combined Effects of Owner Family Membership and Religious Affiliation
| Autor: | Ann-Kathrin Crede, Frauke von Bieberstein, Andrea Essl, Andreas Hack |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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05 social sciences Stakeholder Reciprocity (evolution) Religiosity Honesty 0502 economics and business Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) 050211 marketing Experimental methods Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Finance media_common |
| Zdroj: | Family Business Review. 33:265-283 |
| ISSN: | 1741-6248 0894-4865 |
| Popis: | Stakeholder honesty is highly important for managers, for instance, in decisions involving hiring. Due to reciprocity, stakeholders are more likely to be honest if the managers act honestly themselves. However, external stakeholders often cannot observe managers’ actions and instead have to rely on signals. This article examines the effects of two signals—a manager’s owner family membership and religious affiliation—on stakeholder honesty. By conducting an economic experiment and a survey, we find that stakeholders behave more honestly toward family managers compared to nonfamily managers. This effect is reinforced if the family manager is presented as religious. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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