Flow experience and team performance: The role of team goal commitment and information exchange

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-130

  Aubé, Caroline ^a   Brunelle, Eric ^a   Rousseau, Vincent ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flow experience; Information exchange; Team goal commitment; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895903633     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-013-9365-2     Document Type: Article

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