Faraway, yet so close: Organizations in demographic flux

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 451-468

  Pennings, Johannes M ^a,b   Wezel, Filippo Carlo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competitive overlap History; Demographic diversity; Mobility; Team age; Top management teams (TMT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956996931     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0447     Document Type: Article

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