Role Conflict, General Manager Job Satisfaction and Stress and the Performance of IJVs

European Management Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-35

  Mohr, Alexander T ^a   Puck, Jonas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

India; International joint venture; Job satisfaction; Joint venture performance; Role conflict; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846316763     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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