Qualitative Futures Research for Innovation
Author | : Patrick A. Duin |
Publisher | : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Forecasting |
ISBN | : 9059721152 |
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Author | : Patrick A. Duin |
Publisher | : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Forecasting |
ISBN | : 9059721152 |
Author | : Sveinung Jørgensen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3319919717 |
Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and profitable. Based upon years of research, it draws together theoretical foundations and existing literature on the topic of sustainable business alongside case studies and practical solutions. After examining the theoretical foundations of sustainable business model innovation, the authors present their own framework – RESTART. Consisting of seven factors, this framework can be the basis for restarting any business model. The final section outlines a research agenda for sustainable business informed by the perspectives and frameworks put forward in this book.
Author | : Howard F. Didsbury, Jr. |
Publisher | : World Future Society |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780930242596 |
This outstanding collection of essays offers thought-provoking insights on a range of future-shaping issues, such as harnessing the powers of a coming "digital transformation," creating more livable cities, dealing with the impacts of immigration, transforming school systems to meet the needs of the future economy, solving the drug-abuse problem through systems thinking, and overcoming traps in thinking about the future.
Author | : James K. Lein |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1315353962 |
This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying premise of this book is that sustainability is a state realized in the future. In that future there is a geographic arrangement of society and economy that agrees with its environmental setting. This future perspective introduces a little examined subject area that can lend significant content to the sustainability challenge: Futures Research.
Author | : Matthew K. E. Thomas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1350062057 |
This book explores the possibilities of the relationships between theory and method as enacted in post-qualitative research. The contributors, based in Australia, Canada, the UK and USA, use theory and method to disrupt established traditions and create new and alternative possibilities for research in identity, agency, power, social justice, space, materiality, and other transformations. Using examples of recent and highly innovative research practices which meaningfully challenge taken-for-granted assumptions in education and social science, the editors and contributors open new ground for other ways of thinking about doing research in these fields. Major theoretical perspectives explored and applied include: posthumanism, poststructuralism, feminist theory, ecofeminism, new materialism, SF, and critical theory and the theorists drawn on include: Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Rosie Braidotti, Anna Tsing and Stacy Alaimo.
Author | : V. Bekkers |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230307523 |
Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?
Author | : V. K. Narayanan |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2010-03-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1405160497 |
Get complete, up-to-date and authoritative coverage of technology and innovation. A broadly encompassing encyclopedia on the emerging topic of technology innovation and management (TIM), this volume covers a wide array of issues. TIM is a relatively new field and is highly interdisciplinary, incorporating strategy and entrepreneurship, economics, marketing, organizational behavior, organization theory, physical and life sciences, and even law. All of these disciplines are represented in this volume, and their intersections are made clear. Entries are contributed by scholars from around the world who are leading experts in their respective topics. This volume is appropriate for scholars who are new to this particular field, as well as industry practitioners interested in understanding the state of knowledge in these specific areas. Entries may also serve as useful instructional materials, given their span of coverage as well as their currency. Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management has now been adapted and included as the 13th volume of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management. VK Narayanan is Stubbs Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of Research at Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Gina O'Connor is Associate Professor of Marketing in the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, U.S.A.
Author | : Patrick van der Duin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317543157 |
Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by him- or herself and apply the results in a decision-making strategy process. The author addresses the following methods: scenarios, trend analysis, the Delphi method, quantitative trend extrapolation, technology assessment, backcasting and roadmapping; the most relevant and popular methods that also cover the range of approaches from predictive, via normative to explorative. Every chapter also contains references to additional literature about the methods being discussed. This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and students in the areas of Community Development, Sociology of organizations, Change management, Social entrepreneurship, Sustainable development and participative planning.
Author | : Heiko A. von der Gracht |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2008-07-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3834997641 |
Based on 51 interviews with logistics CEOs, strategists, and scenario experts, Heiko A. von der Gracht shows that the logistics service industry draws a backward picture of scenario planning practices as compared to other industries.
Author | : Robert Rosen |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1483286274 |
The first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are utilized for purposes of present control. This book develops the basic concept of a predictive model, and shows how it can be embedded into a system of feedforward control. Includes many examples and stresses analogies between wired-in anticipatory control and processes of learning and adaption, at both individual and social levels. Shows how the basic theory of such systems throws a new light both on analytic problems (understanding what is going on in an organism or a social system) and synthetic ones (developing forecasting methods for making individual or collective decisions).