The effect of relational and team characteristics on individual performance: A social network perspective

Human Resource Management

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 511-535

  Carboni, Inga ^a   Ehrlich, Kate ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Job design; Social networks; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880944068     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21539     Document Type: Article

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