How to make the team: Social networks vs. demography as criteria for designing effective teams

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Reagans, Ray ^a,d   Zuckerman, Ezra ^b,e   McEvily, Bill ^c,f  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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