Social power, social status and perceptual similarity of workplace victimization: A social network analysis of stratification

Human Relations

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 795-822

  Lamertz, Kai ^a   Aquino, Karl ^b  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Social networks; Social power; Status; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 3542998100     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726704045766     Document Type: Article

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