Common sense and integrative thinking

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 508-517

  Benson, Joy ^a   Dresdow, Sally ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Managers; Organizational behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651030280     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740910946750     Document Type: Article

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