Supervisory Span, Relational Coordination, and Flight Departure Performance: A Reassessment of Postbureaucracy Theory

Organization Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 468-483

  Gittell, Jody Hoffer ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Group Process; Performance; Supervision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035601640     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.12.4.468.10636     Document Type: Article

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