Do minority leaders affect corporate practice? Analyzing the effect of leadership composition on governance and product development

Strategic Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 117-140

  Cook, Alison ^a   Glass, Christy ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Governance; innovation; leadership; organizations; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930422013     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127014564109     Document Type: Article

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