Models of teamwork: Ideal or not? A critical study of theoretical team models

Team Performance Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 328-340

  Berlin, Johan M ^a   Carlström, Eric D ^b   Sandberg, Hakan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical study; Ideal; Modelling; Stepwise models; Team; Team models; Team working; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865138812     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527591211251096     Document Type: Article

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