The Role of Instrumental and Expressive Social Ties in Employees' Perceptions of Organizational Justice

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Umphress, Elizabeth Eve ^a   Labianca, Giuseppe ^b   Brass, Daniel J ^c,f   Kass, Edward ^d   Scholten, Lotte ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumental and Expressive Social Ties; Organizational Justice; Social Information Processing; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0942289719     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.6.738.24865     Document Type: Article

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