Almighty Dollar or Root of All Evil? Testing the Effects of Money on Workplace Behavior

Journal of Management

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 2147-2167

  Beus, Jeremy M ^a   Whitman, Daniel S ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compensation; cooperation; money priming; teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026751030     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206314565241     Document Type: Article

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