Team Faultline Measures: A Computational Comparison and a New Approach to Multiple Subgroups

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 393-424

  Meyer, Bertolt ^a   Glenz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; faultlines; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878746962     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428113484970     Document Type: Article

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