Entrepreneurship as foresight: A complex social network perspective on organisational foresight

Futures

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 956-971

  Fuller, Ted ^a   Warren, Lorraine ^b  

^a University of Teesside   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; ENTREPRENEUR; MODELING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 33747756110     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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