Organizational Tonypandy: Lessons from a quarter century of the groupthink phenomenon

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 163-184

  Fuller, Sally Riggs ^a   Aldag, Ramon J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0013112945     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1998.2760     Document Type: Article

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