Are more and better indicators the solution?

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-227

  Osterloh, Margit ^a   Frey, Bruno S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision process; Publishing; Scholarly evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349119807     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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