Group development and team effectiveness: Using cognitive representations to measure group development and predict task performance and group viability

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-212

  Bushe, Gervase R ^a   Coetzer, Graeme H ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group development; Shared cognition; Team effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249713629     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886306298892     Document Type: Article

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