Top managers' national diversity and boundary spanning. Attitudinal indicators of a firm's internationalization

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 848-859

  Caligiuri, Paula ^a,b   Lazarova, Mila ^c   Zehetbauer, Stephan ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diversity management; International organizations; Senior managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744492515     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02621710410558459     Document Type: Article

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