Person-Group Fit: Diversity Antecedents, Proximal Outcomes, and Performance at the Group Level

Journal of Management

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1184-1213

  Seong, Jee Young ^a   Kristof Brown, Amy L ^a   Park, Won Woo ^b   Hong, Doo Seung ^b   Shin, Yuhyung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

categorization elaboration model (CEM); group performance; group level person group (PG) fit; social cohesion; transactive memory system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930512998     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206312453738     Document Type: Article

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