Functional top management team members: A review, synthesis, and research agenda

Journal of Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-80

  Menz, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

functional executives; functional top management team members; strategic leadership; top management teams; upper echelons

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655164334     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311421830     Document Type: Review

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