The building of employee distrust: A case study of Hewlett-Packard from 1995 to 2010

@article{Elsbach2012TheBO,  title={The building of employee distrust: A case study of Hewlett-Packard from 1995 to 2010},  author={Kimberly D. Elsbach and Ileana Stigliani and Amy Stroud},  journal={Organizational Dynamics},  year={2012},  volume={41},  pages={254-263},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153839614}}
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