Mea culpa: Predicting stock prices from organizational attributions

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1636-1649

  Lee Fiona, ^a   Peterson, Christopher ^a   Tiedens, Larissa Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Negative events; Organizational attributions; Stock prices

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION;

ATTITUDE; COMMERCE; COMMUNICATION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES;

EID: 10044235361     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204266654     Document Type: Article

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