The rhetorical dimensions of bounded rationality: Herbert A. Simon and organizational economics

Cognitive Developments in Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 158-176

  Foss, Nicolai J ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203579909     Document Type: Chapter

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