Alliance management teams and entrainment: Sharing temporal mental models

Human Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 903-927

  Standifer, Rhetta ^a   Bluedorn, Allen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrainment; Multi team systems; Shared mental models; Strategic alliances; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746031462     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726706067596     Document Type: Article

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