Managerial decision-making in international business: A forty-five-year retrospective

Journal of World Business

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-142

  Aharoni, Yair ^a   Tihanyi, Laszlo ^b   Connelly, Brian L ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Environmental uncertainty; Foreign direct investment; Managerial decision making; Multinational enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951958142     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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