Cultural diversity and its impact on social interactive processes: Implications from an empirical study

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-163

  Vallaster, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Longitudinal study; Multicultural groups; Process perspective; Social interactive processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149201676     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595805054490     Document Type: Article

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