The impact of goal structure in Team knowledge creation

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 639-651

  Mitchell, Rebecca ^a   Boyle, Brendan ^a   Nicholas, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Group processes; Team dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349266426     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209340568     Document Type: Article

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