Entrepreneurs under uncertainty: An economic experiment in China

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1671-1687

  Holm, Hakan J ^a   Opper, Sonja ^a   Nee, Victor ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior and behavioral decision making; Decision analysis; Economics; Microeconomic behavior; Risk

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKINGS; CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; ECONOMIC DECISIONS; ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MICROECONOMIC BEHAVIOR; ORDINARY PEOPLE; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMICS; RISKS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84880365538     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1670     Document Type: Article

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