Weak signals: Ansoff today

Futures

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 198-205

  Holopainen, Mari ^a   Toivonen, Marja ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH; SIGNAL;

EID: 84857656837     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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