The use of hard and soft influence tactics in cooperative task groups

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-244

  Van Knippenberg, Barbara ^a   Van Eijbergen, Rob ^b   Wilke, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Influence tactics; Social influence; Task performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007337970     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430299023002     Document Type: Article

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