Management indecision

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 683-693

  Brooks, Margaret E ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Leadership; Managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955940000     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111130788     Document Type: Article

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