The role of routines in reducing pervasive uncertainty

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 746-757

  Becker, Markus C ^a   Knudsen, Thorbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision making; Pervasive uncertainty; Risk; Routines; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144267587     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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