Managerial Orientations of Adaptors and Innovators
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Managerial Psychology
- Vol. 1 (2) , 24-27
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004411
Abstract
Adaptors and innovators exhibit distinct approaches to problem solving and derision making: a finding which has far‐reaching implications for managerial psychologists who intervene in business and other organisations.Keywords
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