A social composition view of team creativity: The role of member nationality-heterogeneous ties outside of the team

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1434-1452

  Perry Smith, Jill E ^a   Shalley, Christina E ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nationality; Outside ties; Social networks; Team creativity; Tie strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907584582     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0912     Document Type: Article

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