Task and relationship conflict in short-term and long-term groups: The critical role of emotion regulation

International Journal of Conflict Management

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-107

  Curşeu, Petru L ^a   Boroş, Smaranda ^a   Oerlemans, Leon A G ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conflict management; Emotion regulation; Groups; Project teams; Short term groups; Students; Task and relationship conflict; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856797960     PISSN: 10444068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10444061211199331     Document Type: Article

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