Career patterns of top management team members in five countries: An optimal matching analysis

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 975-991

  Biemann, Torsten ^a   Wolf, Joachim ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Institute of World Economy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Career patterns; Culture; International experience; Optimal matching analysis; Organizational tenure; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249097226     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190902850190     Document Type: Article

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