Constructing the team: The antecedents and effects of membership model Divergence

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 909-931

  Mortensen, Mark ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Composition; Membership; Mental models; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901370086     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0881     Document Type: Article

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