When ethical leader behavior breaks bad: How ethical leader behavior can turn abusive via ego depletion and moral licensing.

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  2016

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  Journal of Applied Psychology

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  Medicine, Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/apl0000098PMID 26867103
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