Diversity mindsets and the performance of diverse teams

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-193

  Van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   van Ginkel, Wendy P ^a   Homan, Astrid C ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diversity; Diversity attitudes; Diversity beliefs; Diversity climates; Information elaboration; Shared cognition; Team cognition; Team leadership; Team performance; Team reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875788204     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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