Cohesion and Sports Teams: A Review

Small Group Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 744-758

  Pescosolido, Anthony T ^a   Saavedra, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cohesion; sports teams; structure; work groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869427551     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496412465020     Document Type: Article

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