Team role stress: Relationships with team learning and performance in project teams

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-100

  Savelsbergh, Chantal ^a   Gevers, Josette M P ^b   van der Heijden, Beatrice I J M ^a,c,d   Poell, Rob F ^e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

individual performance; multilevel mediation; project teams; team learning behaviors; team performance; team role stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856770768     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601111431977     Document Type: Article

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