Improvisation as "real time foresight"

Futures

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 265-272

  Cunha, Miguel Pina E ^a   Clegg, Stewart R ^a,b   Kamoche, Ken ^c  

^a NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^b Key Research Centre for Management and Organization Studies   (Australia)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fast changing environments; Foresight; Improvisation; Planning

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PLANNING METHOD; PREDICTION; REAL TIME;

EID: 84857653216     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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