Learning to work together: An examination of transactive memory system development in teams

Work Group Learning: Understanding, Improving and Assessing How Groups Learn in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-116

  Ellis, Aleksander P J ^a   Porter, Christopher O L H ^b   Wolverton, Sandra A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809747     Document Type: Chapter

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