Information use in strategic decision making

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 318-326

  Frishammar, Johan ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Information; Intelligence; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165532     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310468090     Document Type: Article

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