Structure and Function of Team Learning Emergence: A Multilevel Empirical Validation

Journal of Management

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1430-1461

  Kostopoulos, Konstantinos C ^a   Spanos, Yiannis E ^b   Prastacos, Gregory P ^b  

^a EADA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

emergence; multilevel modeling; multilevel structural equation modeling; team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881059221     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311419366     Document Type: Article

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