Erratic strategic decisions: When and why managers are inconsistent in strategic decision making

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 683-704

  Robert Mitchell, J ^a   Shepherd, Dean A ^b   Sharfman, Mark P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

conjoint analysis; entrepreneurship; field experiment; hostility and dynamism; psychology and metacognition; strategic decisions

Indexed keywords

CONJOINT ANALYSIS; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HOSTILITY AND DYNAMISM; PSYCHOLOGY AND METACOGNITION; STRATEGIC DECISIONS;

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS;

MANAGERS;

EID: 79955745341     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.905     Document Type: Article

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