Mechanisms underlying nationality-based discrimination in teams: A quasi-experiment testing predictions from social psychology and microeconomics

Small Group Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 643-672

  Schwieren, Christiane ^a   Glunk, Ursula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Discrimination; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 55149115506     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496408322279     Document Type: Article

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