Asian-Americans' creative styles in Asian and American Situations: Assimilative and contrastive responses as a function of bicultural identity integration

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-390

  Mok, Aurelia ^a   Morris, Michael W ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicultural identity; Creativity; Cultural norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049392683     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2010.00190.x     Document Type: Article

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