Fear of foresight: Knowledge and ignorance in organizational foresight

Futures

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 942-955

  e Cunha, Miguel Pina ^a   Palma, Patrícia ^b   da Costa, Nuno Guimarães ^a  

^a NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; KNOWLEDGE; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 33747810743     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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