The Effect of Team Leader Characteristics on Learning, Knowledge Application, and Performance of Cross-functional New Product Development Teams

Decision Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 707-739

  Sarin, Shikhar ^a   McDermott, Christopher ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross Functional Product Development Teams; Knowledge Management; Learning; New Product Development; Team Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642450788     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2003.02350.x     Document Type: Article

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