Status cues and expertise assessment in groups: How group members size one another up … and why it matters

Status in Management and Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 215-237

  Bunderson, J Stuart ^a,b   Barton, Michelle A ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

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EID: 84925646805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511760525.014     Document Type: Chapter

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