Group membership salience and task performance

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 609-626

  van Dick, Rolf ^a   Stellmacher, Jost ^b   Wagner, Ulrich ^b   Lemmer, Gunnar ^b   Tissington, Patrick A ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group work; Individual behaviour; Social dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349547882     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940910989011     Document Type: Article

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