Emotion regulation as a boundary condition of the relationship between team conflict and performance: A multi-level examination

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 714-734

  Jiang, Jane Yan ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Tjosvold, Dean ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Emotion regulation; Relationship conflict; Task conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879459463     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1834     Document Type: Article

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