Cooperative goals and team agreeableness composition for constructive controversy in China

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-153

  Wang, Zhen ^a   Chen, Yi feng Nancy ^b   Tjosvold, Dean ^b   Shi, Kan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Constructive controversy; Cooperative goals; Team agreeableness composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849134266     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-009-9175-y     Document Type: Article

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