The Effects of Personality Composition and Decision-making Processes on Change Preferences of Self-managing Teams

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 333-353

  Muehlfeld, Katrin ^a,b   Van Doorn, Jenny ^c   Van Witteloostuijn, Arjen ^a,b,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79960556532     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1539     Document Type: Article

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