First, get your feet wet: The effects of learning from direct and indirect experience on team creativity

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 102-115

  Gino, Francesca ^a   Argote, Linda ^b   Miron Spektor, Ella ^c   Todorova, Gergana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creativity; Experience; Familiarity; Group learning; Knowledge transfer; Membership stability; Teams; Transactive memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449119098     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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