Rationality, information search and choice in higher education: Evidence from Greece

Higher Education

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 705-721

  Menon, Maria Eliophotou ^a   Saiti, Anna ^b   Socratous, Michalis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision making; Economics; Information search; Rationality; University choice; University promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548741880     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-9019-3     Document Type: Article

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