Criteria for assessing the Level of Group Development (LGD) of work groups: Groupness, entitativity, and groupality as theoretical perspectives

Small Group Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 492-514

  Meneses, Rocío ^a   Ortega, Raúl ^a   Navarro, José ^a   De Quijano, Santiago D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Entitativity; Groupality; Groupness; Level of group development

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049112628     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496408319787     Document Type: Article

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