The Internal and External Networks of Knowledge-Intensive Teams: The Role of Task Routineness

Journal of Management

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 442-468

  Chung, Yunhyung ^a   Jackson, Susan E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lorange Institute of Business Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

social networks; task routineness; team; team networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872770799     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206310394186     Document Type: Article

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