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Technological Forecasting and Social Change An International journal Volume 51, Number 1, January 1996 Contents NEBOJSA NAKICENOVIC Decarbonization: Doing More with Less (Laxenberg, Austria) AVRAHAM SHAMA Going to Market: A Comparative Study of Russian and (Albuquerque, NM) Romanian Marketing Managers and VIOLETA CIUREL (Bucharest, Romania) LUIGI TOMA Going to Market: A Commentary (Washington, DC) Special Section: The International Association of Technology Assessment and Forecasting Institutions Gary Williams and Jan Andersen, Guest Editors GARY WILLIAMS Technology Assessment Network Building: and JAN ANDERSON The International Association of Technology Assessment (Washington, DC) and Forecasting Institutions REINHARD COENEN Challenges of Networking in Technology Assessment (Karlsruhe, Germany) TARJA CRONBERG European TA-Discourses — European TA? (Lyngby, Denmark) ANNAMARIA INZELT Institutional Support for Technological Improvement — (Budapest, Hungary) The Case of Hungary Column JOSEPH F. COATES From My Perspective My Ideal Client (Washington, DC) Book Reviews HAROLD A. LINSTONE Making Waves: Engineering, Politics, and the Social (Lake Oswego, OR) Management of Technology (Edward Wenk, Jr.) BRIAN J. L. BERRY The World in 2020: Power, Culture, and Prosperity (Dallas, TX) (Hamish McRae) The World of 2044: Technological Development and the Future of Society (Charles Sheffield, Marcelo Alonso, and Morton A. Kaplan, eds.) PERRIN MEYER Growth and Diffusion Phenomena: Mathematical (New York, NY) Frameworks and Applications (Robert B. Banks) Technological Forecasting and Social Change An International journal Volume 51, Number 2, February 1996 Contents VIJAY MAHAJAN Timing, Diffusion, and Substitution of Successive Generations (Austin, TX) of Technological Innovations: The IBM Mainframe Case and EITAN MULLER (Tel Aviv, Israel) J. DAVID ROESSNER Anticipating the Future High-Tech Competitiveness of Nations: ALAN L. PORTER Indicators for Twenty-Eight Countries NILS NEWMAN and DAVID CAUFFIEL (Atlanta, GA) A. TISHLER, D. DVIR Identifying Critical Success Factors in Defense Development (Tel Aviv, Israel) Projects: A Multivariate Analysis A. SHENHAR (Minneapolis, MN) and S. LIPOVETSKY (Tel Aviv, Israel) WILLIAM McCUTCHEN, JR. Exploring Larger Biotech Research Firm Strategies: Projections (New York, NY) from a Comparison of Smaller and Larger Firms PAUL M. SWAMIDASS (Auburn, AL) Technical Note DAVID A. CAUFFIEL Electronics Manufacturing in 2020: A National Technological ALAN L. PORTER University Management of Technology Mini-Delphi (Atlanta, GA) Column HAROLD A. LINSTONE From My Perspective Technological Slowdown or Societal (Portland, OR) Speed—u Tph e Price of System Complexity? Book Review KISH SHARMA Management of New Technologies for Global Competitiveness (Bellevue, WA) (Christian N. Madu) Technological Forecasting and Social Change An International journal Volume 51, Number 3, March 1996 Contents R. U. AYRES Foresight as a Survival Tactic: When (If Ever) Does the (Fontainebleau, France) Long View Pay? and R. AXTELL (Washington, DC) ARNULF GRUBLER Global Energy Perspectives: A Summary of the Joint Study (Laxenburg, Austria) by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis MICHAEL JEFFERSON and World Energy Council (London, UK) and NEBOJSA NAKICENOVIC (Laxenburg, Austria) WILLIAM P. PUTSIS, JR. Temporal Aggregation in Diffusion Models of First-Time (New Haven, CT) Purchase: Does Choice of Frequency Matter? BRIAN J. L. BERRY The Yield Curve as an Electoral Bellwether EUEL ELLIOT and EDWARD J. HARPHAM (Dallas, TX) Column JOSEPH F. COATES From My Perspective A Thriving Future for Terrorism (Washington, DC) Book Reviews KAROL I. PELC The Virtual Classroom: Learning without Limits via Computer (Houghton, MI) Networks (Roxanne Hiltz Starr) OSCAR HAUPTMAN Technology and Strategy: Conceptual Models and and MOSES KIGGUNDU Diagnostics (Richard A. Goodman and Michael W. Lawless) (Ottawa, Canada) OSCAR HAUPTMAN Research and Development Project Selection (Ottawa, Canada) (Joseph P. Martino) Volume 51 Author Index Volume 51 Book Review Index Volume 51 Subject Index Volume 51 Contents