What corporations do with foresight

European Journal of Futures Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hammoud, Mohamad S ^a   Nash, Douglas P ^b  

^a WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Provista ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Best practices; Competitive advantage; For profit corporations; Foresight; Future; Planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989155449     PISSN: 21954194     EISSN: 21952248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40309-014-0042-9     Document Type: Article

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