Discussions on long-term financial choice

Australian Journal of Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 414-434

  Cheah, Kuan Kiat ^a   Foster, F Douglas ^b   Heaney, Richard ^c   Higgins, Timothy ^a   Oliver, Barry ^d   O’Neill, Terry ^a   Russell, Roslyn ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Financial choice; focus groups; retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940202178     PISSN: 03128962     EISSN: 13272020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0312896214532476     Document Type: Article

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