All for one, one for all: Coopetition and virtual team performance

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1155-1168

  Baruch, Yehuda ^a   Lin, Chieh Peng ^b  

^a NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; Emotional intelligence; Knowledge sharing; Performance; Team politics

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; PERFORMANCE; TEAM POLITICS;

COMPETITION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84862817007     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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