Past, present, and potential future of team diversity research: From compositional diversity to emergent diversity

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 135-145

  van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   Mell, Julija N ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity; Emergent states; Group composition; Group dynamics; Group processes; Groups; Team composition; Team processes; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989884074     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.05.007     Document Type: Article

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