Managers' foresight matters

Foresight

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 64-78

  Amsteus, Martin ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Company performance; Forward planning; Managers; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953291108     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636681111126256     Document Type: Article

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