Leader corruption depends on power and testosterone

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 101-122

  Bendahan, Samuel ^a,b   Zehnder, Christian ^a   Pralong, François P ^c   Antonakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corruption; Dictator game; Leadership; Power; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926257643     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.07.010     Document Type: Article

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