Leading virtual teams: How do social, cognitive, and behavioral capabilities matter?

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-290

  Mukherjee, Debmalya ^a   Lahiri, Somnath ^b   Mukherjee, Deepraj ^c   Billing, Tejinder K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Waldorf College   (United States)

^d ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Globalization; Leadership capabilities; Virtual organizations; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857984452     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211203560     Document Type: Article

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