Cognitive conflict in design teams: Competing or collaborating?

Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Badke Schaub, Petra ^a   Goldschmidt, Gabriela ^b   Meijer, Martijn ^a  

^a Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive conflict; Collaboration; Conflict style; Creativity; Innovation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE CONFLICT; COLLABORATION; CONFLICT STYLE; CREATIVITY; DESIGN TASKS; DESIGN TEAM; FUNCTIONAL DESIGN; INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE; INNOVATIVENESS; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; VERBAL PROTOCOLS;

INNOVATION; RATING; VIDEO RECORDING;

DESIGN;

EID: 62749188419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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