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Does similarity between evaluator and creator affect the evaluation of ideas?
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2017-08
Sprache
English
Citation
77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2017)
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Building on the notion of homophily, we theorize that hierarchical similarity leads to an idea evaluation bias. We test our prediction with a dataset from an intra-organizational idea crowdfunding contest. As theorized, ideas are overvalued (undervalued) when evaluator and creator are hierarchically similar (distant). Novelty of ideas amplifies this effect.
DDC Class
330: Economics