Skills for effective communication and work in global product development teams

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 557-576

  Tavčar, Jože ^a   Žavbi, Roman ^a   Verlinden, Jouke ^b   Duhovnik, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Creativity; Decision making; Product development; Project management; Skills; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144432860     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544820500273797     Document Type: Article

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