Negotiating the Meaning of Team Expertise: A Firefighter Team's Epistemic Denial

Small Group Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-32

  Minei, Elizabeth ^a   Bisel, Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

after action review (AAR); decision making; expertise; high reliability organization (HRO); high reliability teams (HRTs); team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873531634     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496412467830     Document Type: Article

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