Strategic foresight in a changing world

Foresight

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 444-459

  Wayland, Rebecca ^a  

^a Competitive Paradigms ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Discontinuity; Extraordinary foresight; Normal foresight; Ontological; Paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939794613     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/FS-03-2015-0016     Document Type: Article

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