Social identity patterns and trust in demographically diverse work teams

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Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-198

  van der Zee, Karen ^a   Vos, Menno ^a   Luijters, Kyra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Common ingroup identity; Demographic diversity; Justice; Relational identity orientation; Respect; Trust; Value in diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949124873     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018409102406     Document Type: Article

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