Success from satisficing and imitation: Entrepreneurs' location choice and implications of heuristics for local economic development

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1700-1709

  Berg, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Ethnographic; Interviews; Lexicographic; Non compensatory; Process model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901020398     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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