Group dynamics in top management teams: Groupthink, vigilance, and alternative models of organizational failure and success

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 272-305

  Peterson, Randall S ^a   Owens, Pamela D ^b   Tetlock, Philip E ^b   Fan, Elliott T ^b   Martorana, Paul ^b  

^a The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000745023     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1998.2763     Document Type: Article

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