National culture and friendship homophily in the multinational workplace

Asian Business and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 299-320

  Rhee, Mooweon ^a   Yang, Daegyu ^a   Yoo, Taeyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

Author keywords

friendship network; homophily; multinational workplace; national culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879399420     PISSN: 14724782     EISSN: 14769328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/abm.2012.23     Document Type: Article

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