Smaller teams-better teamwork: How to keep project teams small

Business Horizons

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-214

  Hoegl, Martin ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Team productivity; Team size; Teamwork; Work organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544363792     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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