How competitive are female professionals? A tale of identity conflict

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 284-303

  Cadsby, C Bram ^a   Servátka, Maroš ^b   Song, Fei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Experiment; Gender; Identity conflict; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880929832     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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