Developing an abduction-based method for futures research

Futures

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 126-139

  Patokorpi, Erkki ^a   Ahvenainen, Marko ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; LEARNING; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 62349094449     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2008.09.019     Document Type: Article

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