Who Values Diversity? Comparing the Effect of Manager Gender Across the Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 797-809

  Johansen, Morgen ^a   Zhu, Ling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

American hospitals; cross sector comparison; diversity; gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029722216     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: 15523357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074016634201     Document Type: Article

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