Organizational risk taking: Adaptation versus variable risk preferences

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 427-466

  Denrell, Jerker ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 45149121388     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn007     Document Type: Article

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