Individual competence and group behavior within a living system.

A study was conducted to examine how individual humans exploit their competence in group work during a workshop. The aim of the study was to identify the extent to which the behavior of groups of workshop participants would correspond to the theories of living systems and of organization science ab...

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Publicado en:Behavioral Science Vol. 40; pp. 15 - 22
Autor principal: Österlund, Jan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. January 1995
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