The Black Box of Organizational Demography

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-22

  Lawrence, Barbara S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Levels of analysis; Organizational demography; Organizational theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031529150     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.1.1     Document Type: Review

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