Social Loafing in Teams

International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 361-378

  Rutte, Christel G ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Group performance; Meta analysis; Organizations; Social loafing; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049097059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696712.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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