Your Ancestors Worked Hard for this Legitimacy! Theory and Experiment on the Inauthenticity of Second Movers

The authors thank Justin Frake, Tao Han, Oliver Hahl, Derek Harmon, Hyejun Kim, Minjae Kim, Patrick Park, Jeroen Struben, Remi Trudel, Daniel Waeger, Filippo Wezel, and seminal participants at Boston University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, SKEMA Business School, Yonsei University, SKK Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan, EMLYON Business School, the 2017 EGOS Conference, the 2017 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, the 2018 Authenticity Workshop, and the 2018 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. The authors are very thankful to Senior Editor Giacomo Negro and three anonymous reviewers for their guidance and comments that substantially improved this paper. All mistakes are the authors’ own.