Making meetings work: Achieving high quality group decisions

Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-247

  Tropman, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781483328737     Document Type: Book

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