Identifying Organizational Faultlines With Latent Class Cluster Analysis

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-57

  Lawrence, Barbara S ^a   Zyphur, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; faultlines; latent class cluster analysis; organizational demography; organizational reference groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650107548     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428110376838     Document Type: Article

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