Leadership and trust: Their effect on knowledge sharing and team performance

Management Learning

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-491

  Lee, Pauline ^a   Gillespie, Nicole ^b   Mann, Leon ^a   Wearing, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

knowledge sharing; leadership; teams; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956116186     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507610362036     Document Type: Article

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