What affects individuals' decisions to acquire forecasted information?

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 379-399

  Ackert, Lucy F ^a   Church, Bryan K ^b   Shehata, Mohamed ^c,d  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Georgia Tech University

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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EID: 0010965022     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1996.tb00507.x     Document Type: Article

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