Top management team nationality diversity and firm performance: A multilevel study

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-382

  Nielsen, Bo Bernhard ^a,b   Nielsen, Sabina ^a,b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; multilevel; multinational teams; performance; top management teams

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY; MULTILEVEL; MULTINATIONAL TEAMS; PERFORMANCE; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS;

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84872813878     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2021     Document Type: Review

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