“I deserve more because my name is on the door”: Entitlement, embeddedness, and employee deviance in the family business

Managing Organizational Deviance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 287-308

  Bennett, Rebecca J ^a   Thau, Stefan ^b   Scouten, Jay ^b  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84859216446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452231105.n12     Document Type: Chapter

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