Team self-regulation and meeting deadlines in project teams: Antecedents and effects of temporal consensus

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-321

  Gevers, Josette M P ^a   van Eerde, Wendelien ^a   Rutte, Christel G ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consensus; Deadlines; Project teams; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749091365     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13594320701693217     Document Type: Article

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