Micropolitics: A new model of status hierarchies in teams

Research on Managing Groups and Teams

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-80

  Anderson, Cameron ^a   Kennedy, Jessica A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Dominance; Hierarchy; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887223151     PISSN: 15340856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1534-0856(2012)0000015006     Document Type: Article

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