“…Demonstrating the continued relevance of office politics, a recent survey of 2,700 individuals from over 100 countries indicated that members of the modern workforce view office politics as one of the top barriers to job performance (HBR Ascend Staff, 2019). Coupled with social forces promoting the pursuit of self-serving objectives (Schmid, Pircher Verdorfer, & Peus, 2019), the inevitability of work politics positions the phenomenon as a focal research topic across disciplines (Teimouri, Arasli, Kiliç, & Aghaei, 2018). Indeed, scholars have characterized the research base as “vibrant” (Ferris, Perrewé, Daniels, Lawong, & Holmes, 2017: 5), “very important and widely studied” (Naseer, Raja, Syed, Donia, & Darr, 2016: 15), and a “field of intensive and fruitful academic writing” (Vigoda-Gadot & Drory, 2016: 1).…”