Thinking outside the black box: Outcomes of team decisions with third-party intervention

Small Group Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 208-236

  Gibson, Cristina B ^a,c   Saxton, Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Effectiveness; Heterogeneity; Teams; Third parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244407413     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496404270376     Document Type: Article

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