Introducing Procedural Utility: Not Only What, But Also How Matters

By Bruno S. Frey, Matthias Benz, Alois Stutzer. 2003

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation (2010, positive): “…benefit in the eyes of one employee but not another. allows individuals to select problems that are of particular interest to them and to attribute success to their own actions, all of which may increase intrinsic motivation (cf. Frey and Stutzer 2004, Gagne and Deci 2005, Hackman and Oldham 1976).”
On preferences and doing the right thing: Satisfaction with advantageous inequity when cognitive processing is limited (2006, background): “The question of how people deal with conXicts between egoism-based preferences and fairness-based concerns has fascinated and puzzled philosophers and social theorists for centuries (see, e.g., Adams, 1965; Beauchamp, 2001; Blau, 1964; Cohen, 1986; Diekmann et al., 1997; Epley & Caruso, 2004; Epley ”
World happiness report (2012, neutral): “Frey et al. (2004).”
Goodwill bazaar: NGO competition and giving to development (2010, background): “In other words, they have a “procedural utility” component (Frey et al., 2004).”
Being independent raises happiness at work (2004, background): “Elsewhere, we have shown that procedural utility is an empirically relevant phenomenon in many areas of the economy, polity and society, and that it can enrich standard economic theory and empirical research (Frey et al., 2003).”
Happiness and public choice (2010, background): “…subjected to different political and societal procedures; in organizations, as employees confronted with different organizational procedures; and in law, as litigants (for an introductory survey, see Frey et al. 2004, and for an application to democracy, see Frey and Stutzer 2005; Olken 2008).”
Inequality and Happiness (2012, positive): “Above and beyond the satisfaction that people directly derive from processes being fair (i.e. procedural utility, Frey, Benz and Stutzer, 2004), their judgment of an outcome tends to be better when the process is perceived as fair.”
I Can't Get No Satisfaction-Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility (2008, positive): “Using this direct approach to analyze reported job satisfaction, Benz and Frey (2008) show that self-employment provides procedural utility (Frey et al. 2004): The self-employed value not only outcomes, but also the conditions and processes leading to these outcomes.”
Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being (2010, neutral): “30This can be understood as procedural disutility (see Frey et al. 2004 for the concept of procedural utility) that affects women’s well-being beyond narrow economic outcomes such as wages.”
Happiness Research: State and Prospects (2005, methodology): “An introduction to the concept of procedural utility is provided by Frey et al. (2004a).”
Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy (2008, neutral): “The concept of procedural utility aims at integrating an aspect of human utility into economics that has largely been neglected in economic theory or empirical research (for surveys, see Frey et al. 2004; Benz 2007).”