RT Article
T1 Will I Cooperate? The Moderating Role of Informational Distance on Justice Reasoning
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 137
IS 4
SP 663
OP 675
A1 Melkonian, Tessa
A1 Soenen, Guillaume
A1 Ambrose, Maureen
A2 Soenen, Guillaume
A2 Ambrose, Maureen
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785658700
AB This study examines the influence of a dimension of a strategic organizational change context—namely informational distance—on employees’ justice expectations and their behavioral intentions toward the change. Drawing on research from organizational justice and from construal level theory, we hypothesize that informational distance, i.e., the extent to which employees feel knowledgeable about the coming change, affects the relative influence of the anticipatory justice facets and anticipatory overall justice in predicting support for change. Consistent with the hypotheses, results from participants of a merger suggest that when employees feel less knowledgeable about the future change (high-informational distance), overall anticipatory justice predicts their intention to cooperate with the change. However, when employees feel more knowledgeable about the future change (low-informational distance), anticipatory justice facets predict intention to cooperate. Implications for research on organizational justice and change as well as considerations for practice are discussed.
K1 Merger and acquisition
K1 Informational distance
K1 Construal level theory
K1 Justice facets
K1 Overall justice
K1 Anticipatory justice
DO 10.1007/s10551-015-2744-8