Managers and their not-so rational decisions

Business Horizons

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-119

  Trevis Certo, S ^a   Connelly, Brian L ^a   Tihanyi, Laszlo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Risk; Top executives

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849202594     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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