Goal Setting and Negotiation Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-52

  Zetik, Deborah C ^a   Stuhlmacher, Alice F ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aspiration; bargaining; goal setting; meta analysis; negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993660821     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430202005001537     Document Type: Article

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