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  1. Coordinating Editor. Correspondence: t.okimoto@business.uq.edu.au.

  2. Author correspondence: k.vandenbos@uu.nl.

  3. Author correspondence: russell.cropanzano@colorado.edu, Jessica.Kirk@Colorado.edu.

  4. Author correspondence: gj1@nyu.edu.

  5. Specification of the three fundamental actors in distributive justice has a rich history. While the Rewardee appears in almost all theoretical and empirical analysis, explicit inclusion of the Allocator ranges from the reluctance of the theologically minded (who fear that injustice may be attributed to God) to the embrace of Lerner (1975, 1980), Leventhal (1976), and Vermunt, and the Observer, long implicit, becomes explicit in Austin and Walster (1975:478, 494) and Jasso (1978:1400).

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      Kees van den Bos

    2. Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

      Russell Cropanzano & Jessica Kirk

    3. Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10012-9605, USA

      Guillermina Jasso

    4. UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

      Tyler G. Okimoto

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    van den Bos, K., Cropanzano, R., Kirk, J. et al. Expanding the Horizons of Social Justice Research: Three Essays on Justice Theory. Soc Just Res 28, 229–246 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0237-7

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