Axiomatic foundation and a structured process for developing firm-specific Intuitive Logics scenarios

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 122-139

  Phadnis, Shardul ^a   Caplice, Chris ^a   Singh, Mahender ^a   Sheffi, Yossi ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Intuitive Logics; Scenario creation; Scenario development; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY;

AXIOMATIC FOUNDATION; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; INTUITIVE LOGICS; SCENARIO CREATION; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; SCENARIO PLANNING; STRUCTURED PROCESS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

FOUNDATIONS;

BUSINESS; HEALTH CARE; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; KNOWLEDGE; THEORETICAL STUDY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; PLANNING PROCESS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904692913     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.06.019     Document Type: Article

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