The powerful select, the powerless reject: Power's influence in decision strategies

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 874-880

  Mourali, Mehdi ^a   Nagpal, Anish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Choice; Choose; Decision strategy; Exclusion; Inclusion; Power; Reject; Responsibility; Select

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876702431     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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