Top management teams within multinational corporations: Effects of cultural heterogeneity

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 393-412

  Elron, Efrat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0031476712     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1048-9843(97)90021-7     Document Type: Article

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