The impact of institutional distance on the international diversity-performance relationship

Journal of World Business

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-103

  Chao, Mike Chen Ho ^a   Kumar, Vikas ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fortune 500 firms; Institutional distance; International diversity; Normative institutional distance; Performance; Regulative institutional distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449627404     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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