Exploring the Dynamics of Workgroup Fracture: Common Ground, Trust-With-Trepidation, and Warranted Distrust

Journal of Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 764-795

  Priem, Richard L ^a,b   Nystrom, Paul C ^c  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

common ground; distrust; group fracture; trust; trust with trepidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894756131     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311412191     Document Type: Article

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