Does the intuitive logics method - and its recent enhancements - produce "effective" scenarios?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 631-642

  Wright, George ^a   Bradfield, Ron ^b   Cairns, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Strathclyde   (United Arab Emirates)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intuitive logics; Scenario planning; Scenario thinking

Indexed keywords

INTUITIVE LOGICS; LOGICAL SEQUENCES; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; SCENARIO METHODS; SCENARIO PLANNING; SCENARIO THINKING; STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

INNOVATION;

LITERATURE REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING SYSTEM; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 84875381994     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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