Investigating the antecedents of team-based clan control: Adding social capital as a predictor

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 469-489

  Kirsch, Laurie J ^a   Ko, Dong Gil ^b   Haney, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual level analysis; Information systems projects; Knowledge of the transformation process; Organizational control; Social capital; Team level analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957009089     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0458     Document Type: Article

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