Wade-Benzoni, K. A. (2006). In A. E. Tenbrunsel (Ed.), Ethics in Groups (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Vol. 8, pp. 247–270). Bingley: Emerald.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The theoretical statement of legacy motivation as a source of what looks like altruism toward the future, the temporal version of the owner’s thesis (CLAIM-491). For QUESTION-301.
Read in its place
The work cannot be read here, so the record holds it at second hand.
Wade-Benzoni, Sondak and Galinsky (2010) cite Wade-Benzoni 2006 three times. Legacy gives “a symbolic form of immortality” (p. 7). A legacy needs an enduring effect on other people: one cannot leave it “by affecting merely one’s own future self” (p. 12). And the 2006 chapter is among the sources of their list of what marks an intergenerational decision: power asymmetry, no direct reciprocity, a self–other trade-off, a time delay, role transition and growing consequences (p. 19). Their experiments show the programme the chapter framed: legacy concern raised by burdens, and more generosity to future others with burdens than with benefits. Missing still: the chapter’s own argument, whether it calls intergenerational beneficence altruism or egoism, any evidence it reports, and what it proposes for promoting decisions that favour future generations.