Organizational values and procedures as antecedents for goal interdependence and collaborative effectiveness

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-112

  Chen, Guoquan ^a   Tjosvold, Dean ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaborative effectiveness; Cooperation and competition; Organizational values

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349191033     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-007-9038-3     Document Type: Article

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