Successful authors and effective reviewers: Balancing supply and demand in the organizational sciences

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 259-275

  Tsui, Anne S ^a   Hollenbeck, John R ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective reviewers; Organizational sciences; Reviewer qualifications; Reviewers; Reviewing

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449140991     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428108318429     Document Type: Article

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