The involvement of middle management in strategy development -Development and implementation of a foresight-based approach

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 101, Issue , 2015, Pages 10-24

  Darkow, Inga Lena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate foresight; Middle management; Scenarios; Strategy development; Strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

CORPORATE FORESIGHT; MIDDLE MANAGEMENT; SCENARIOS; STRATEGY AS PRACTICES; STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84949107690     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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