Task conflict, information processing, and decision-making: The damaging effect of relationship conflict

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 177-189

  de Wit, Frank R C ^a   Jehn, Karen A ^b   Scheepers, Daan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Information processing; Relationship conflict; Task conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882614220     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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