Fall from Grace: The Role of Dominance and Prestige in the Punishment of High-Status Actors
| Autor: | Hemant Kakkar, Matthias S. Gobel, Niro Sivanathan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Strategy and Management
Prestige 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology General Business Management and Accounting Management of Technology and Innovation High status 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Business and International Management Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Deviance (sociology) Social status |
| Zdroj: | Academy of Management Journal. 63:530-553 |
| ISSN: | 1948-0989 0001-4273 |
| Popis: | When actors transgress social norms, their social status colors the severity with which they are punished. While some argue that high-status transgressors attract severe punishment when accused of ambiguous transgressions, others contend the opposite. In this paper, we attempt to reconcile this theoretical inconsistency. We propose that the capacity for social status to color third-party judgments of transgressions may depend on the status type of high-status actors. Drawing on the evolutionary theory of dominance and prestige as two alternate forms of status within social hierarchies, we suggest that actors associated with dominance-based status will be penalized more harshly than actors whose status is based on prestige. Across multiple studies employing archival field data, controlled lab experiments, and different instantiations of dominance, prestige, and misconduct, we consistently demonstrate that high-status dominant actors are punished more harshly than their prestigious counterparts. Further, we find that attributions of intentionality and lack of moral credentials explain the harsher punishments meted out to dominant (versus prestigious) high-status actors. In this way, we provide both a parsimonious reconciliation of the inconsistency in the extant literature and a theoretical explanation of how status type of high-status actors differentially impacts the judgment, decisions, and behaviors of third parties. |
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