Peer evaluations and team performance: When friends do worse than strangers

Economic Inquiry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 171-181

  Corgnet, Brice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Burgundy School of Business   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HISTORY; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; PEER REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; PEER REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855421381     PISSN: 00952583     EISSN: 14657295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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