Fast and frugal crisis management: An analysis of rule-based judgment and choice during water contamination events

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1717-1724

  MacGillivray, Brian H ^a,b,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disasters; Heuristics; Organisational crises; Organisational decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901245947     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.02.018     Document Type: Article

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