Corporate elite characteristics and firm's internationalization: CEO-level and TMT-level roles

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 220-233

  Jaw, Yi Long ^a   Lin, Wen Ting ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Tunghhai University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CEO; Corporate elites; Internationalization; TMT

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249091813     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802528797     Document Type: Article

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