TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Johnnie
AU  - Bruce,Alistair
TI  - Decisions: risk and reward 
T2  - Routledge studies in business organizations and networks
SN  - 9780203932810 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BF448 .D437 2008eb
U1  - 153.8/3 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Risk-taking (Psychology)
KW  - Horse racing
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Gambling
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references and index; Motivation for betting and risk taking -- Toward an explanation of betting as a leisure pursuit -- Costing excitement in leisure betting -- Successful betting strategies : evidence from the UK off-course betting market -- The impact of complexity on decision-making behaviour -- The complex decision : insights from naturalistic research -- An empirical study of the impact of complexity on participation in horserace betting -- A probit model for estimating the effect of complexity on risk taking -- Risk strategy under task complexity : a multivariate analysis of behaviour in a naturalistic setting -- Decision making under risk : effect of complexity on performance -- Gender differences in decision-making behaviour -- Gender and DSS design : the research implications -- Male and female betting behaviour--new perspectives -- Gender-based differences in leisure behaviour : performance, risk-taking and confidence in off-course betting -- Decision-making, risk and gender : are managers different? -- The use of information by decision makers and deviations from rational economic behaviour -- A violation of dominance and the consumption value of gambling -- Exploring decision makers' use of price information in a speculative market -- Gluck's second law : an empirical investigation of horserace betting in early and late races -- Investigating the roots of the favourite-longshot bias : an analysis of decision-making by supply and demand-side agents in parallel betting markets -- Market efficiency analysis requires a sensitivity to market characteristics : some observations on a recent study of betting market efficiency -- Efficiency characteristics of a market for state contingent claims -- Market ecology and decision behaviour in state-contingent claims markets -- Calibration of subjective probability judgements in a naturalistic setting
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