This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations’ responses to cultural distance. We posit that cross-country differences in egalitarianism—a cultural orientation manifested in intolerance for abuses of market and political power and support for protection of less powerful actors—affect multinational firms’ choices of destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI). Us...

When deciding how to weigh benefits to different groups, standard economic models assume that people focus on the final distribution of utility, health or whatever. Thus, an egalitarian is assumed to be an egalitarian in the outcome space. But what about egalitarianism in the gains space, such that people focus instead on how equally benefits are distributed? This paper reports on a study in wh...

Sufficientarian theories of distributive justice are often considered to be vulnerable the ‘blindness inequality and other values objection’. This objection targets their commitment holding moral irrelevance requirements above absolute thresholds advantage, making them insufficiently sensitive egalitarian concerns that do have relevance for justice. paper explores how sufficientarians could rep...