Improving team decision-making performance with collaborative modeling

Team Performance Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 40-50

  Jeffery, Arthur B ^a   Maes, Jeanne D ^a   Bratton Jeffery, Mary F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b NAS Pensacola   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Modelling; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744370331     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590510584311     Document Type: Article

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