Understanding intuition: The case for two forms of intuition

Management Learning

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 545-564

  Dörfler, Viktor ^a   Ackermann, Fran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; decision taking; intuition; personal knowledge; tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867676384     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507611434686     Document Type: Article

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