Leader-focused search: The impact of an emerging preference on information search

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-141

  Carlson, Kurt A ^a   Guha, Abhijit ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focalism; Information search; Selective exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952736678     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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