Diversity management: Are we moving in the right direction? Reflections from both sides of the North Atlantic

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 395-403

  Holvino, Evangelina ^a,b   Kamp, Annette ^c  

^a Chaos Management Ltd   (United States)

^b Simmons School of Management   (United States)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diversity management; Equality; Identity; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549129043     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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