Competitive determinants of organizational risktaking attitude: the role of strategic reference points

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 127-141

  Shoham, Aviv ^a   Fiegenbaum, Avi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Organizations; Risk management; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986077060     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210422802     Document Type: Article

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