A Contingency Theory of Task Conflict and Performance in Groups and Organizational Teams

International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 151-166

  De Dreu, Carsten K W ^a   Weingart, Laurie R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Coordination; Management; Organizational teams; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948756121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696712.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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