Market entry decisions: Effects of absolute and relative confidence

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-120

  Bolger, Fergus ^a   Pulford, Briony D ^b   Colman, Andrew M ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Entrepreneurial behavior; Market entry game; Nash equilibrium; Overconfidence; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APTITUDE; COMPREHENSION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 41749107928     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.55.2.113     Document Type: Article

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