Diversity and business performance: 50 years of research

Service Business

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 257-274

  De Abreu Dos Reis, Carlos Ricardo ^a   Sastre Castillo, Miguel Ángel ^b,c   Roig Dobón, Salvador ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discrimination in the workplace; Diversity; Human resources; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448956425     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-007-0022-2     Document Type: Review

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