Group leadership and shared task representations in decision making groups

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-106

  Van Ginkel, Wendy P ^a   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Hidden profile; Information elaboration; Shared cognition; Shared mental models; Shared task representations; Team leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856028671     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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