Gerpott, Fabiola H.; Van Quaquebeke, Niels - In: Journal of Management Studies 60 (2022) 7, pp. 1855-1883
There are myriad organizational anecdotes about middle managers who advance their careers by ingratiating themselves with their superiors while exploiting and abusing their subordinates. We formally define this behavioural combination as the Kiss‐Up‐Kick‐Down (KUKD) phenomenon and develop...