Causal Accounts and Managing Organizational Conflict: Is It Enough to Say It's Not My Fault?

Communication Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 381-399

  Bies, Robert J ^a   Shapiro, Debra L ^a   Cummings, Larry L ^a  

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EID: 84962855719     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009365088015004003     Document Type: Article

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