Decision-making biases and affective states: Their potential impact on best practice innovations

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 277-291

  Smith, Faye I ^a   Kisamore, Jennifer L ^b   Stone, Thomas H ^c   Jawahar, I M ^d  

^a MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Best practices; Decision making; Heuristics; Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551547776     PISSN: 08250383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjas.132     Document Type: Article

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