Decision Premises, Decision Cycles and Decomposition

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 709-731

  Loasby, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0010870943     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/9.4.709     Document Type: Article

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