Belbin's team role model: Development, validity and applications for team building

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-118

  Aritzeta, Aitor ^a   Swailes, Stephen ^b   Senior, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Psychology Faculty ^*

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EID: 33846068594     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00666.x     Document Type: Review

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