The Quantitative Study of Factors Determining Business Decisions

George Katona and James N. Morgan

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1952, vol. 66, issue 1, 67-90

Abstract: I. Personal interviews with a representative sample of business executives, 67; sampling, 69; interviewing, 70. — II. Study of industrial mobility, 72; advantages of Michigan location, 72; disadvantages of Michigan location, 76; qualitative information, 78; conclusions, 81. — III. Study of investment decisions, 82; the direct question of why, 83; correlation analysis, 86; detailed analysis of correlation cells, 88; summary, 89.

Date: 1952
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (12)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1882077 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:66:y:1952:i:1:p:67-90.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva

More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press (joanna.bergh@oup.com).