Formal and emergent predictors of coworkers' perceptual congruence on an organization's social structure

Human Communication Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-563

  Heald, Maureen R ^a   Contractor, Noshir S ^a   Koehly, Lauram ^b   Wasserman, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois ^*

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EID: 0032361149     PISSN: 03603989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.1998.tb00430.x     Document Type: Article

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