Cumulative Advantage: Conductors and Insulators of Heavy-Tailed Productivity Distributions and Productivity Stars

Personnel Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-66

  Aguinis, Herman ^a   O'Boyle, Ernest ^b   Gonzalez Mulé, Erik ^b   Joo, Harry ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 84923844237     PISSN: 00315826     EISSN: 17446570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/peps.12095     Document Type: Article

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