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Corporate Foresight

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Abstract

search on corporate foresight has its roots in the term strategic foresight. The reason for choosing the term corporate foresight in this thesis is to emphasize that the research is aimed at understanding foresight applied in private firms as opposed to the application in the public domain.

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Rohrbeck, R. (2010). Literature Review. In: Corporate Foresight. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2626-5_2

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