Mustering Motivation to Enact Decisions: How Decision Process Characteristics Influence Goal Realization

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 167-188

  Dholakia, Utpal M ^a   Bagozzi, Richard P ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision enactment; Goal setting; Goal striving; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041685038     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.408     Document Type: Article

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