Common and un-common sense in managerial decision making under task uncertainty

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 694-709

  Dinur, Adva Rachel ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Managers; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955934443     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111130797     Document Type: Review

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