Pooling unshared information: The benefits of knowing how access to information is distributed among group members

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 102-116

  Stasser, Garold ^a   Vaughan, Sandra I ^a   Stewart, Dennis D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001701962     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.2000.2890     Document Type: Article

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