Factors in team effectiveness: Cognitive and demographic similarities of software development team members.
The benefits of teams and teamwork are popular and propounded in management discourse. The use of this lexicon is based on beliefs in the resultant mutual gains for both organizations and individuals. Yet, are all teams, irrespective of the characteristics of membership composition, the same in term...
| Publicado en: | Human Relations Vol. 59; no. 12; pp. 1681 - 1711 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
December 2006
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