Can a team have too much cohesion? The dark side to network density

European Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 703-711

  Wise, Sean ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Email analysis; Group cohesion; Social network topology; Team performance; Travel agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905820984     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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