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Impediments to Team Flow Experiences

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The construct of team flow can be more easily described than created for many work teams, both because many of the antecedents are hard to generate and because there are a host of roadblocks that can stand between a team and its flow.

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  1. Flow Concepts, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jef J. J. van den Hout

  2. Quality of Life Laboratory, New York, NY, USA

    Orin C. Davis

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van den Hout, J.J.J., Davis, O.C. (2019). Impediments to Team Flow Experiences. In: Team Flow. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27871-7_5

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