Interpersonal Power: A Review, Critique, and Research Agenda

Journal of Management

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 136-163

  Sturm, Rachel E ^a   Antonakis, John ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

agency; control; corruption; endogeneity; incentives; power; priming; process model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918787305     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206314555769     Document Type: Article

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