Framing flexibility: Theorising and data mining to develop a useful definition of flexibility and related concepts

Futures

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 923-933

  De Haan, J ^a   Kwakkel, J H ^b   Walker, W E ^b   Spirco, J ^b   Thissen, W A H ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFRASTRUCTURE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80052033157     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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