Composing effective teams through team dating

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 873-894

  Curşeu, Petru L ^a   Kenis, Patrick ^b   Raab, Jörg ^a   Brandes, Ulrik ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ANTWERP MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Group cognitive complexity; Team dating; Team design; Team diversity; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955078770     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610373195     Document Type: Article

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