The relationships between top management demographic characteristics, rational decision making, environmental munificence, and firm performance

Organization Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 999-1023

  Goll, Irene ^a   Rasheed, Abdul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental munificence; Rational decision making; Top management demographics

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844488999     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605053538     Document Type: Article

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