Stronger than the sum of its parts? The performance implications of peer control combinations in teams

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1703-1721

  de Jong, Bart A ^a   Bijlsma Frankema, Katinka M ^b   Cardinal, Laura B ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Norms; Peer control; Peer pressure; Self managing teams; Situational strength; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911374331     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0926     Document Type: Article

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