Managerial foresight: Measurement scale and estimation

Foresight

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-76

  Amstéus, Martin ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business planning; Measurement; Strategic planning Paper type

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953069850     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636681111109705     Document Type: Article

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