Top management team behavioral integration, decision quality, and organizational decline

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 441-453

  Carmeli, Abraham ^a   Schaubroeck, John ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational decline; Strategic decision making; Team processes; TMT behavioral integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748981529     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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