Unbounding bounded rationality: Heuristics as the logic of economic discovery

International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 368-392

  Grandori, Anna ^a   Cholakova, Magdalena ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84917215206     PISSN: 10934537     EISSN: 15324273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJOTB-16-03-2013-B004     Document Type: Article

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