The distortion of criteria after decision-making

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 769-784

  Phillips, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision criteria; Distortion; Going concern decisions; Justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036339431     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00015-8     Document Type: Article

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