Common sense and hard decision analysis: Why might they conflict?

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 427-440

  Goodwin, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Intuition; Managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651042775     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740910946697     Document Type: Review

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