A Model of Antecedents and Consequences of Intuition in Strategic Decision-making: Evidence from Egypt

Long Range Planning

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 149-176

  Elbanna, Said ^a,b,c   Child, John ^b,d   Dayan, Mumin ^e,f  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT VARIABLES; COMPANY PERFORMANCE; CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES; ENVIRONMENTAL HOSTILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; FINANCE;

INDUSTRY;

DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MANUFACTURING; RESEARCH;

EGYPT;

EID: 84875545299     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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