Top Management Team Structure: Differential Effects by Environmental Context

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-156

  Keck, Sara L ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Environmental Context; Organizational Performance; Top Management Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031513445     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.2.143     Document Type: Article

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