Q methodology and decision making

Handbook of Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 537-563

  Durning, Dan W ^a   Brown, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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