Challenges of teamwork in production: Demands of communication

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-124

  Minssen, Heiner ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication in organizations; Conflict; Cooperation; Neoinstitutionalistic theory; Organizational change; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644988698     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605056400     Document Type: Article

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