Developing and supporting creative problemsolving teams: part 1 – a conceptual model

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 463-475

  Mcfadzean, Elspeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Facilitators; Problem solving; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165614     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210430443     Document Type: Article

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