When Interaction Flows: An Exploration of Collective Creative Processes on a Collaborative Governance Board

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 500-528

  van Oortmerssen, Lise A ^a   van Woerkum, Cees M J ^b   Aarts, Noelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collaboration; communication; creativity; group or team dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936855167     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601114560586     Document Type: Article

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