Group information elaboration and group decision making: The role of shared task representations

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-97

  van Ginkel, Wendy P ^a   van Knippenberg, Daan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed information; Group decision making; Shared task representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 37348999826     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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