From crossing cultures to straddling them: An empirical examination of outcomes for multicultural employees

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 63-89

  Fitzsimmons, Stacey R ^a   Liao, Yuan ^b   Thomas, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bicultural; Multicultural; Multiple identities; Multiple regression analysis; Social cognition; Social identity theory; Survey method

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026242642     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/s41267-016-0053-9     Document Type: Article

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