Team Decision Making in Virtual and Face-to-Face Environments

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 995-1020

  O’Neill, Thomas A ^a   Hancock, Samantha E ^b   Zivkov, Katarina ^a   Larson, Nicole L ^a   Law, Stephanie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision behavior; Decision processes; Decision making; Hidden profile; Team psychological states; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951807881     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-015-9465-3     Document Type: Article

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