Organizational Demography: The Differential Effects of Age and Tenure Distributions on Technical Communication
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Zenger, Todd R. and Barbara S. Lawrence
Academy of Management Journal, The
1989

Abstract:

Although previous researchers have proposed organizational demography as an important determinant of communication, no one has tested this relationship directly.