Ethnic diversity as a multilevel construct: The combined effects of dissimilarity, group diversity, and societal status on learning performance in work groups

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1198-1218

  Brodbeck, Felix C ^a   Guillaume, Yves R F ^b   Lee, Nick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business game simulation; ethnic dissimilarity; group diversity; individual learning; information elaboration; minority majority influence; multilevel models; performance; relational demographics; small groups; societal status

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052052331     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110383314     Document Type: Article

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