Toward a theory of evidence based decision making

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 832-867

  Baba, Vishwanath V ^a   HakemZadeh, Farimah ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based management; Global collaboration; Management strategy; Management theory; Mixed level model of decision making; Theory of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861368911     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211227546     Document Type: Article

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