Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of 'way finding'

Futures

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-41

  Sarpong, David ^a   Maclean, Mairi ^b   Alexander, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PLANNING METHOD; PREDICTION;

EID: 84887021203     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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