I've seen this behavior on a personal scale at work. Someone gets contacted to work on a project, they are used to people just doing what they are told and having things go their way. Then people don't agree with them and decide to go a different direction from their "suggestions" and there's a falling out that gets taken personally because they don't know how to handle the dissention.

There's definitely more to it than that, but this reminds me of such experiences.