Search for dissertations about: "foresight"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the word foresight.

  2. 1. Motivating External Participation in Marketing Intelligence Foresight

    Author : Andrew Flostrand; Esmail Salehi-Sangari; Leyland Pitt; Victoria L. Crittenden; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; marketing intelligence; stakeholder engagement; self-determination theory; Delphi technique; crowdsourcing; foresight; motivation; technological forecasting; social forecasting; Industrial Marketing; Industriell marknadsföring;

    Abstract : Long-range planning for purposes of deciding on the development of high investment and long development cycle activities requires that assumptions be made about environmental factors at the time of their future completion. For organizations that serve a market, the future market factors related to supply, demand, and technological developments are at once fundamentally critical and unknowable  with certainty. READ MORE

  4. 2. Foresight and Feedback: Monitoring and assessing the environmental implications of emerging technologies

    Author : Duncan Kushnir; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; patent analysis; lithium; Foresight; topic model; monitoring; guidance; energy system; resource availability; environmental assessment;

    Abstract : The magnitude of the change required to approach sustainability indicates an effort that will have to be sustained over decades, during which vast new technology systems will have to be developed and deployed. Yet technological development is a double edged sword, and these efforts will inevitably incur unintended consequences. READ MORE

  5. 3. Managerial foresight and firm performance

    Author : Martin Amsteus; Jon Aarum Andersen; Lars Bengtsson; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business administration; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Purpose – To specify what defines managerial foresight and to assess the association between managerial foresight and firm performanceMethodology/Approach – First, previous research was reviewed and foresight was defined. Second, an instrument for measuring managerial foresight was developed. READ MORE

  6. 4. Planning Primates - A search for episodic foresight

    Author : Mathias Osvath; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language evolution; planning; the Bischof-Köhler hypothesis; comparative episodic foresight; episodic system; autonoetic consciousness; orangutans; chimpanzees;

    Abstract : The ability to plan for future, not currently experienced, mental or physiological states has been regarded as unique to humans. When humans plan for such states it has been hypothesized that they make use of what has been known as episodic foresight. READ MORE

  7. 5. Shaping sustainable food systems : Local participation in addressing global challenges

    Author : Aniek Hebinck; Line Gordon; Joost M. Vervoort; Stephan Barthel; Moya Kneafsey; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; food systems; sustainability; food governance; transformative change; participatory processes; participation; civil society; niche level; food policy; urban food; urban agriculture; food poverty; imagined futures; foresight; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : The current unsustainable trajectory of food systems puts the social and ecological processes and functions on which human flourishing depends at risk. This last decade has seen, on one hand, continued insistence on transformative action and on the other, uncertainty and instability with respect to traditional, established institutions, such as the state. READ MORE