The gender dimension of business elites: Italian women directors since 1934

Journal of Modern Italian Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-225

  Gamba, Michela ^a   Goldstein, Andrea ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Business elites; Gender; Prosopographical study on women directors

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649118194     PISSN: 1354571X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545710902826469     Document Type: Review

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