Introducing a classification framework for prospective methods

Foresight

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 43-56

  Voros, Joseph ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646338453     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636680610656174     Document Type: Article

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