Effects of team knowledge management on the creativity and financial performance of organizational teams

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-13

  Sung, Sun Young ^a   Choi, Jin Nam ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Environmental uncertainty; Intuitive cognitive style; Knowledge stock; Knowledge utilization; Systematic cognitive style; Team creativity; Team financial performance; Team knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862796314     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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