Decision making in emerging markets: The Delphi approach's contribution to coping with uncertainty and equivocality

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1118-1126

  Winkler, Jens ^a   Kuklinski, Christian Paul Jian Wei ^b   Moser, Roger ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c M L SUKHADIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Decision theories; Delphi; Emerging markets; Equivocality; Organizational information processing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924514310     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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