Intuition: Myth or a decision-making tool?

Management Learning

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-370

  Sinclair, Marta ^a,b   Ashkanasy, Neal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Cognition; Decision making; Intuition; Managerial knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144490956     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507605055351     Document Type: Review

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