Influences on strategic decision effectiveness: Development and test of an integrative model

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 431-453

  Elbanna, Said ^a   Child, John ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual variables; Decision effectiveness; Intuition; Political behavior; Rationality; Strategic decision

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES; DECISION EFFECTIVENESS; POLITICAL BEHAVIOR; STRATEGIC DECISION;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 33947382238     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.597     Document Type: Article

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