From the outside in: The negative spillover effects of boundary spanners' relations with members of other organizations

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 886-905

  Ramarajan, Lakshmi ^a   Bezrukova, Katerina ^b   Jehn, Karen A ^c   Euwema, Martin ^d  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Inter organizational contact; Peacekeeping

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960249233     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.723     Document Type: Article

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