Exposing the illusion of confidence in financial analysis

Management Decision

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-168

  Phelan, Steven E ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Decision making; Finance; Investment analysis; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986078534     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749710160322     Document Type: Review

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