Making Sense in Hypercompetitive Environments: A Cognitive Explanation for the Persistence of High Velocity Competition

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 212-226

  Bogner, William C ^a   Barr, Pamela S ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision Processes; Hypercompetition; Strategy Formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034376379     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.2.212.12511     Document Type: Article

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