Scenarios and early warnings as dynamic capabilities to frame managerial attention

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 825-838

  Ramírez, Rafael ^a,c   Österman, Riku ^b   Grönquist, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Itäpaja Ltd   (Finland)

^c NormannPartners AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competitive intelligence; Dynamic capability; Early warning; Framing; Scenarios; Top management

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; EARLY WARNING; FRAMING; SCENARIOS; TOP MANAGEMENT;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE;

COMPETITION;

COMPETITIVENESS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84875377094     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.10.029     Document Type: Article

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