Top Management Team Diversity: A Systematic Review

Group & Organization Management

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 455-479

  Homberg, Fabian ^a   Bui, Hong T M ^b,c  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

diversity; meta regression analysis; performance; top management team

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993709320     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601113493925     Document Type: Article

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