Does Knowledge Mediate the Effect of Context on Performance? Some Initial Evidence

Decision Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 541-568

  Dröge, Cornelia ^a   Claycomb, Cindy ^b   Germain, Richard ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Knowledge; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 9144245512     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2003.02324.x     Document Type: Article

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