Piece of cake? Allocating rewards to third parties when fairness is costly

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-119

  Johansson, Lars Olof ^a   Svedsäter, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion of personal responsibility; Economic fairness; Inequality aversion; Max min preferences; Third party fairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649111614     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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