Experimental economics and workplace behaviour: Bridges over troubled methodological waters?

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 293-315

  Edwards, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic methodology; Economic sociology; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858643434     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwr021     Document Type: Article

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