To reflect or not to reflect: Prior team performance as a boundary condition of the effects of reflexivity on learning and final team performance

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-23

  Schippers, Michaéla C ^a   Homan, Astrid C ^b   van Knippenberg, Daan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Team learning; Team performance; Team reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871200043     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1784     Document Type: Article

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