Conjoining prescriptive and descriptive approaches: Towards an integrative framework of decision making. A conceptual note

Management Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 553-564

  Panagiotou, George ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business environment; Corporate strategy; Decision making; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 43149094690     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740810865058     Document Type: Article

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