Getting closer at the company party: Integration experiences, racial dissimilarity, and workplace relationships

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1377-1401

  Dumas, Tracy L ^a   Phillips, Katherine W ^b   Rothbard, Nancy P ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary theory; Diversity; High quality relationships; Integration; Racial dissimilarity; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885161128     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0808     Document Type: Article

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