“…Yet, serious scholarship on politics in organizations has emerged as a viable body of scientific inquiry just within the past twenty years (Ferris, Adams, Kolodinsky, Hochwarter & Ammeter, 2002;Drory & Vigoda-Gadot, 2010). Studies have long argued that politics is an epidemic phenomenon ubiquitous in organizations and that it deserves more attention and empirical examination (e.g., Vigoda, 2000;Pfeffer, 1992;Andrews, Witt & Kacmar, 2003).…”