When is employee retaliation acceptable at work? Evidence from quasi-experiments

Industrial Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-523

  Charness, Gary ^a   Levine, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77956248207     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2010.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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