The great illusion: Ignorance, informational cascades, and the persistence of unpopular norms

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-155

  Bicchieri, Cristina ^a   Fukui, Yoshitaka ^a  

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DOI: 10.5840/10.2307/3857639     Document Type: Article

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