Exploring the performance benefits of group training: Transactive memory or improved communication?

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-133

  Moreland, Richard L ^a   Myaskovsky, Larissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 0000269136     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.2000.2891     Document Type: Article

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