Leader openness, nationality dissimilarity, and voice in multinational management teams

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 591-613

  Tröster, Christian ^a   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^b  

^a KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

leadership theories; organizational behavior; organizational citizenship behavior; relational demography; teams and teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864871958     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2012.15     Document Type: Article

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