Foresight: Volume 5 Issue 1
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The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policyTable of contents
Resolving the moral impediments to foresight action
Peter HaywardWhy is foresight research often unable to create foresight actions? This paper explores whether an individual’s psychological development could be a factor. It employs the work of…
The green invisible hand
Jan EmblemsvågThe idea behind the invisible hand is that when market participants pursue their own self‐interest constrained by sympathy for man and economic rivalry they satisfy the needs of…
An audit for organizational futurists: ten questions every organizational futurist should be able to answer
Andy HinesThis paper is intended to provide a guidebook for organizational futurists in building a foresight function inside today’s organizations by suggesting ten questions that ought to…
Alternative futures of transport
Sohail InayatullahBased on the experience of transport policy and scenario planning in South‐East Queensland, this essay explores the alternative futures of transport. It does so by first exploring…
Benchmarking European information society developments
Ira Ahokas, Jari Kaivo‐ojaOne way to think about the future challenges is to make benchmarking analysis, where other micro or macro level organisations are compared in relation to own activities and…
Foresight – using scenarios to shape the future of agricultural research
Patrick Schwab, Fabio Cerutti, Ute Hélène von ReibnitzIn the year 2000, the Agricultural Research Business Unit (ARBU) of the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture (FOA) decided to carry out a foresight process. Foresight means taking…
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1463-6689Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Ozcan Saritas