Intuition, prayer, and managerial decision-making processes: A religion-based framework

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 930-949

  Vasconcelos, Anselmo Ferreira ^a  

^a Independent Management Consultant   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Decision making; Managers; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049115478     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740910966668     Document Type: Article

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