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Neuroeconomics

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The neuroscientific revolution in psychology and economics is reformulating long-held views of cognition and emotion and their effects on behaviour. In so doing, it is causing strategic management researchers to rethink a number of the core assumptions underpinning the behavioural microfoundations of the entire field.

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Hodgkinson, G.P., Healey, M.P. (2016). Neuroeconomics. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_553-1

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