Team role preference and cognitive styles a convergent validity study

Small Group Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 404-436

  Aritzeta, Aitor ^a   Senior, Barbara ^b   Swailes, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Highfield House Consultancy ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaption; Cognitive styles; Convergent validity; Innovation; Team performance; Team roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944472987     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496404273742     Document Type: Article

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