Representatives of future generations as promoters of sustainability in corporate decision processes
通过实验室实验，研究在企业决策中任命未来世代代表能否促进代际正义投资，即使代表因倡导未来利益而受金钱惩罚，这种促进作用依然存在。
Abstract Current protests of the young generation emphasize that interests of future generations should be taken more into account by policy makers and in corporate decision processes. As organizations contribute to enduring environmental and social problems, they are required to promote sustainability in order to preserve options for the well‐being of future generations. However, organizational decision makers often take a short‐term perspective and neglect investments in intergenerational justice. Previous theoretical work has acknowledged the importance of representing future generations in today's decision‐making processes to adopt a long‐term perspective in order to promote intergenerational justice. In a laboratory experiment, we show that appointing representatives of future generations at the organizational level can foster investments in intergenerational justice. Although this outcome is more pronounced when aligned with the representatives' individual incentives, it even persists for a representative who is monetarily penalized for advocating the interests of future generations.