Using and Valuing Accounting Information: Joint Decision Making between Accountants and Retail Managers

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-345

  Tjosvold, Dean ^a   Poon, Margaret ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaborative decision making; Dealing with cognitive biases; Information exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032332836     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008646423873     Document Type: Article

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