Top management team behavioral integration and the performance of service organizations

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 712-735

  Carmeli, Abraham ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Organizational performance; Service industries; TMT behavioral integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449101132     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601108325696     Document Type: Article

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