| 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.