The loss of power: How illusions of alliance contribute to powerholders' downfall

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-139

  Brion, Sebastien ^a   Anderson, Cameron ^b  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Alliances; Person perception; Power; Self perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875277098     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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