Through a glass darkly: The future and business revisited

Foresight

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 24-32

  Loweridge, Denis ^a   Woodling, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Business planning; Forecasting; Knowledge; Long range planning; Short termism; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345060346     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636680310476249     Document Type: Review

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