On Forecasting Discontinuities

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-97

  Ayres, Robert U ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

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EID: 0012978743     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(99)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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