Self-regulation and decision heuristics in entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation and exploitation

Management Decision

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 732-748

  Bryant, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Entrepreneurialism; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249697470     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740710746006     Document Type: Article

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