Top management team demographic characteristics, business strategy, and firm performance in the US airline industry: The role of managerial discretion

Management Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-222

  Goll, Irene ^a   Brown Johnson, Nancy ^b   Rasheed, Abdul A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Airlines; Management strategy; Performance management; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 40449141380     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740810854122     Document Type: Article

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