The association between accounting students' lone wolf tendencies and their perceptions, preferences and performance outcomes in team projects

Journal of Accounting Education

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-84

  Gowri Shankar, Premila ^a   Seow, Jean Lin ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Lone wolf tendencies; Team interaction behaviors; Team work

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956016212     PISSN: 07485751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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