Transactive memory systems: Current issues and future research directions

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1254-1265

  Lewis, Kyle ^a   Herndon, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group cognition; Tasks; Transactive memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255167599     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0647     Document Type: Article

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