Article history: Received 16 January 2014 Received in revised form 17 May 2015 Accepted 19 May 2015 Available online 10 June 2015 Foresight processes help decision makers plan for potential, desirable or probable futures. With increasing unpredictability, under pressure of time and in multi-agency situations, however, traditional foresight and strategic management fail. In this paper, we redefi...

Today, the increasingly faster technological advances make the competition ever-fiercer in the business environment. This situation has laid emphasis on the importance of technology foresight for corporations to plan and even shape their futures for a long term. However, the conventional methods do not overcome the problems with the overload and heterogeneity of information in the current infor...

Preliminary draft Not for attribution Comments welcome Current drafts of this paper and the associated computer programs and data will be posted to my web site: All errors are my own responsibility. Abstract / Summary The market for US equity indexes has traditionally comprised floor-traded index futures contracts and the individual markets for the component stocks. This picture has been altere...

هدف: هدف این مطالعه بررسی ارتباط بین ادراک در پاسخگویی، مسئولیت‌پذیری و شفافیت با اعتماد عمومی میانجی‌گری اثربخشی درک شده از حکومت الکترونیکی مدیریت دولتی می‌باشد. طراحی/ روش‌شناسی/ رویکرد: پژوهش حاضر استفاده یک میدانی مقطعی کمی صورت پذیرفته است. داده‌های اولیه سطوح جـامـعه آماری مربوط به 23 دفتر فعال خدمات انتظامی (پلیس10 +) سطح استان گیلان بوده حجم نمونه 392 نفر مراجعه‌کنندگان دفاتر خدماتی می...

• A broad futures-focused perspective to sustainability enhancement supports setting far-reaching goals. critical-transformative approach collaborative foresight enables reflection of the underlying assumptions. The workshop method is enhanced by combining video footage with observations, notes, and transcripts. study links concepts futures images describe actions. aim was explore within a crui...

This paper reports an innovative foresighting study which aimed to construct a small number of credible hydrogen futures and pathways to them, in order to inform the prospective transition to a sustainable hydrogen economy. Combining backcasting and multi-criteria appraisal the authors developed a novel participatory expert stakeholder-led methodology to build and appraise a set of visions, whi...

OBJECTIVES Prospection, the mental representation of possible futures, is usually adaptive. When it goes awry, however, it disrupts emotion and motivation. A negative view of the future is typically seen as one symptom of depression, but we suggest that such negative prospection is the core causal element of depression. Here, we describe the empirical evidence supporting this framework, and we ...