Opportunity acknowledgement as a cognitive process of alignment: Evidence from verbal protocols

Academy of Management 2006 Annual Meeting: Knowledge, Action and the Public Concern, AOM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Grégoire, Denis A ^a   Barr, Pamela S ^a   Shepherd, Dean A ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Opportunity; Verbal protocol

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COGNITIVE PROCESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; OPPORTUNITY; VERBAL PROTOCOLS;

ALIGNMENT; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858640828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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