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Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct

Edmondson · Origins, Measurement & Method · Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior · 2014 · Open access

The Annual Review piece covering the PS literature from the 1990s to 2012 — the predecessor to the 2023 'Comes of Age' review. Synthesises the field's early development, maps antecedents and outcomes, and identifies gaps that motivated a decade of subsequent research.

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• Psychological Safety: A Systematic Review of the Literature (paper)
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• Errors in Organizations: An Integrative Review via Level of Analysis, Temporal Dynamism, and Priority Lenses (paper)
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