Board Background Heterogeneity and Exploration-Exploitation: The Role of the Institutionally Adopted Board Model

Global Strategy Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 154-176

  Heyden, Mariano L M ^a   Oehmichen, Jana ^b   Nichting, Sven ^c   Volberda, Henk W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Board model; Boards of directors; Corporate governance; Cross national; Exploration exploitation; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942239256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20425805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1095     Document Type: Article

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