Sociological contributions to futures' theory building

Foresight

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 59-72

  Karlsen, Jan Erik ^a   Øverland, Erik F ^b   Karlsen, Hanne ^a  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b BI Norwegian School of Management ^*

Author keywords

Epistemology; Forecasting; Philosophy; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953245037     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636681011049884     Document Type: Article

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