The ecology of organizational demography: Managerial tenure distributions and organizational competition

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 713-743

  Sørensen, Jesper B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 8344225340     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/8.4.713     Document Type: Article

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