Top management team diversity and firm performance: Moderators of functional-background and locus-of-control diversity

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-180

  Boone, Christophe ^a   Hendriks, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Organizational performance; Team diversity; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECENTRALIZED DECISION MAKING; DECISION QUALITY; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FIRM PERFORMANCE; HIGH QUALITY; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; TEAM DIVERSITY; TEAM PROCESS; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS;

FLOATING BREAKWATERS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 67649961791     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0899     Document Type: Article

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