Network analysis and football team performance: a first application

Team Performance Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 85-110

  Trequattrini, Raffaele ^a   Lombardi, Rosa ^b   Battista, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interpersonal relations; Performance management; Team management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925118552     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TPM-03-2014-0016     Document Type: Article

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