Managing to Stay in the Dark: Managerial Self-Efficacy, Ego Defensiveness, and the Aversion to Employee Voice

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  2014

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  Academy of Management Journal

• Publication date

  2014-08-01

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  Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.5465/AMJ.2012.0393
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