The role of leadership in shared mental model convergence and team performance improvement: An agent-based computational model

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1035-1049

  Dionne, Shelley D ^a   Sayama, Hiroki ^a   Hao, Chanyu ^a   Bush, Benjamin James ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Computer simulation; Leadership; Mental model; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649908048     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.10.007     Document Type: Review

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