...Arpita Agnihotri; Carolyn M. Callahan; Saurabh Bhattacharya Purpose Leveraging Emerson’s theory of power and motivated reasoning, this study aims to explore how the net power of an individual and actual, instead of perceived, vulnerability results in asymmetric trust and distrust development...

...) on employees’ target-specific extra-role work behaviours [counterproductive work behaviour directed at supervisor (CWB-S) and organisational citizenship behaviour directed at supervisor (OCB-S)] via distrust in supervisor. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a two-wave study, and participants...