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Building on the literature review, the research aims can be further specified. These aims can be divided into aspects whose purpose is to advance theory and aspects whose purpose is to advance management practice.
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The benchmarking talks are meetings with corporate foresight managers in companies in which practices have been discussed but from which no evidence was used directly. The benchmark talks were used to broaden the understanding of CF in various contexts and helped direct the observations in the case studies.
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Rohrbeck, R. (2010). Research Design. In: Corporate Foresight. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2626-5_3
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