Effect of scenario planning on field experts' judgment of long-range investment decisions

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1401-1411

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

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MIT Global Scale Network Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

field experiments; long range planning; scenario planning; strategic planning; strategic thinking

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EXPERT JUDGMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; LONG RANGE PLANNING; SCENARIO PLANNING; STRATEGIC THINKING; THREE-FIELD EXPERIMENTS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84947034344     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2293     Document Type: Article

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