Organizational structure and home team performance

Team Performance Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 158-171

  Foster, William M ^a   Washington, Marvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Organizational structures; Sports; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149115343     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590910964937     Document Type: Article

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