TOOL OF GROWING IMPORTANCE TO POLICY ANALYSTS IN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY

This paper describes reasons for using scenarios and describes what they are and how they can be used in planning and policy analysis. A method for constructing internally consistent scenarios is presented with an example from a firm that manufactures and sells trucks in the United States and abroad. This case study describes the development of implications for the overall marketplace and for the corporate policies and strategies of the manufacurer.

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  Elsevier Publishing Company, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Becker, H S
• Publication Date: 1983-5

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 95-120
• Serial:
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0040-1625
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00401625

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Case studies; Forecasting; Manufactures; Marketing; Planning; Policy; Socioeconomic factors; Technological forecasting; Technology; Trucking; Trucks
• Old TRIS Terms: Economic and sociological effects
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00380347
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM