Uncertainty reduction approaches, uncertainty coping approaches, and process performance in financial services

Decision Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-175

  Field, Joy M ^a   Ritzman, Larry P ^a   Safizadeh, M Hossein ^a   Downing, Charles E ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial Services; Hierarchical Regression; Management of Operational Uncertainty; Managerial Decision Making; Survey Based Empirical Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746237878     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2006.00120.x     Document Type: Review

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