Managerial intuition across cultures: Beyond a "West-East dichotomy"

Education and Training

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 84-96

  Woźniak, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Intuition; Narratives; National cultures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645668287     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910610651737     Document Type: Review

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