A social capital explanation of the relationship between functional diversity and group performance

Team Performance Management

Volumn 11, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 302-315

  Evans, W Randy ^a   Carson, Charles M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group behaviour; Group work; Team performance; Team working; Teambuilding

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844509647     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590510635170     Document Type: Article

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