Why do top management teams look the way they do? A multilevel exploration of the antecedents of TMT heterogeneity

Strategic Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 277-305

  Nielsen, Sabina ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antecedents; Firm internationalization; Industry characteristics; TMT heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249115163     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127009340496     Document Type: Article

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