Team exploratory and exploitative learning: Psychological safety, task conflict, and team performance

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 385-415

  Kostopoulos, Konstantinos C ^a   Bozionelos, Nikos ^b  

^a EADA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

exploitation; exploration; multisource; nonlinear; psychological safety; structural equation modeling; task conflict; team learning; team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955717625     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601111405985     Document Type: Article

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