Article ID: | iaor199134 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 187 |
End Page Number: | 199 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
Journal: | Technological Forecasting & Social Change |
Authors: | Masini Eleonora B., Gillwald Katrin |
Keywords: | world affairs |
In this article the authors will deal with a fluid situation in futures studies, with a growing commitment for such studies apparent in many countries, the overcoming of a ten-year standstill in futures studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, and, in the opinion of some scholars, with a crisis of such studies in the United States during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s.