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Contextual analysis of team productivity in the R & D industry

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We argue that productivity is a phenomenon which takes on various meanings in different contexts. Reliability coefficients of six scales of productivity, four of which have been used byAndrews and/or byPelz andAndrews, are estimated in 28 work contexts using data on 224 R & D teams. The results support the argument.

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  1. Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel-Aviv, (Israel)

    Y. A. Shenhav & Y. Haberfeld

  2. Center for Sociological Research, Stanford University, (USA)

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Shenhav, Y.A., Haberfeld, Y. & Cohen, B.P. Contextual analysis of team productivity in the R & D industry. Scientometrics 17, 387–400 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017460

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