The romance of learning from disagreement. The effect of cohesiveness and disagreement on knowledge sharing behavior and individual performance within teams

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-149

  van Woerkom, Marianne ^a   Sanders, Karin ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cohesiveness; Disagreement; Individual performance; Knowledge sharing behavior; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749123859     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-009-9136-y     Document Type: Article

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