Financial budgets and escalation effects

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 300-322

  Tan, Hun Tong ^a   Yates, J Frank ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit reasoning; Escalation effects; Financial budgets; Proscription concerns

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036230575     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.2001.2967     Document Type: Article

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