Bracketing team boundary spanning: An examination of task-based, team-level, and contextual antecedents

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 731-759

  Joshi, Aparna ^a   Pandey, Niti ^a   Han, Guohong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 68349116161     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.567     Document Type: Article

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