Differentiated versus integrated transactive memory effectiveness: It depends on the task

Group Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 384-398

  Gupta, Naina ^a   Hollingshead, Andrea B ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Group performance; Knowledge differentiation; Knowledge integration; Shared cognition; Transactive memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650406413     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019992     Document Type: Article

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