Decision-making biases in the alliance life cycle: Implications for alliance failure

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 350-364

  Chao, Yu Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business failures; Decision making; Organizational behaviour; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952798222     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111120743     Document Type: Article

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