Teamthink: Beyond the groupthink syndrome in self-managing work teams

Team Performance Management: An International Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 18-31

  Manz, Charles C ^a   Neck, Christopher P ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group think; Self managing teams; Thinking styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750181462     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527599710171255     Document Type: Article

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