High in the hierarchy: How vertical location and judgments of leaders' power are interrelated

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-44

  Giessner, Steffen R ^a   Schubert, Thomas W ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Leadership; Metaphor; Person perception; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547913455     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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