Introduction to special section on "Risk and Technology"

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 837-839

  Wu, Desheng Dash ^a,b   Olson, David L ^c  

^a REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational decisions; Risk management; Technological risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953812711     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.01.014     Document Type: Editorial

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