@techreport{25852bffcbb94479b031a625893c3cc0,
title = "CAN BEING COMPETITIVE BUT UNSUCCESSFUL HARM YOU, EVEN MORE SO IF YOU ARE A WOMAN?",
abstract = "We investigate the fairness views of impartial spectators towards workers who act or communicate competitively but are unsuccessful in a winner-take-all real-effort task. In an online experiment with over 5,800 participants, spectators show significantly less concern toward unsuccessful workers who voluntarily entered a competition for pay, behaved selfishly, or communicated in a dominant tone. There are two main drivers behind the spectators{\textquoteright} changes in financial redistributions towards low earners: firstly, spectators hold workers more accountable when they behave competitively, and secondly, spectators dislike if a worker communicates in a dominant style. We further find that unsuccessful male workers are treated harsher than female workers when workers{\textquoteright} displayed competitiveness is low. However, this gender gap is diminished when workers acted competitively, and both genders are shown equally low concern.",
keywords = "Gender, Competition, Backlash, Experiment",
author = "Simone Haeckl and Jakob M{\"o}ller and Anita Zednik",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
day = "20",
doi = "10.57938/25852bff-cbb9-4479-b031-a625893c3cc0",
language = "English",
series = "Department of Strategy and Innovation Working Paper Series",
number = "02/2023",
publisher = "WU Vienna University of Economics and Business",
address = "Austria",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "WU Vienna University of Economics and Business",
}