Scenario planning at business unit level

Futures

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-27

  Tapinos, Efstathios ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; MODELING; PLANNING SYSTEM; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84871815021     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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