Decentralized cooperation: A distributed approach to team design in a concurrent engineering organization

Team Performance Management: An International Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 138-165

  Prasad, Biren ^a  

^a DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Co operation; Decentralization; Design; Engineering; Productivity; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986144480     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527599810224624     Document Type: Article

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