Diversity's harvest: Interactions of diversity sources and communication technology on creative group performance

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-126

  Giambatista, Robert C ^a   Bhappu, Anita D ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Creativity; Group diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449112801     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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