Schweisfurth, Tim G.Tim G.SchweisfurthZaggl, Michael A.Michael A.ZagglSchöttl, Claus P.Claus P.Schöttl2022-09-202022-09-202017-0877th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2017)http://hdl.handle.net/11420/13638Building 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.enSocial Sciences::330: EconomicsConference Paper10.5465/ambpp.2017.152Conference Paper