Is Political Skill Always Beneficial? Why and When Politically Skilled Employees Become Targets of Coworker Social Undermining
Published Online:1 Oct 2021https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1476
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- Received:October 19, 2020
- Accepted:March 23, 2021
- Published Online:October 01, 2021
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Shuhua Sun (2021) Is Political Skill Always Beneficial? Why and When Politically Skilled Employees Become Targets of Coworker Social Undermining. Organization Science 33(3):1142-1162.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1476
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The author thanks Senior Editor Corinne Bendersky and the three anonymous reviewers for their time and insightful guidance.
