Atanasiu, R., Wickert, C. & Khapova, S.N. (2025) Towards a heuristic view of managerial heuristics: integrating divergent perspectives. International Journal of Management Reviews, 27, 58–80. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12382
In the Introduction, paragraph 4, first sentence, instead of:
“Many scholars have called for integrating the literature on managerial heuristics; we have mapped these calls on three complementary areas.”
The text should be read:
“Many scholars have called for integrating the literature on managerial heuristics (Hodgkinson et al., 2023); we have mapped these calls on three complementary areas.”
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