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Author : Patrick A. Duin
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059721152
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Qualitative Futures Research for Innovation written by Patrick A. Duin and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew K. E. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062065
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Post-Qualitative Research and Innovative Methodologies written by Matthew K. E. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.
Publisher : World Future Society
ISBN 13 : 9780930242596
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times written by Howard F. Didsbury, Jr. and published by World Future Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matthew K E Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062057
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Post-Qualitative Research and Innovative Methodologies written by Matthew K E Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. K. Narayanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405160497
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management written by V. K. Narayanan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Norman K Denzin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131542908X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Ethical Futures in Qualitative Research written by Norman K Denzin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics has been a perennial concern of qualitative researchers. The subject has been confounded with the emergence of human subjects regulations, the increased concern with indigenous communities, the globalization of research practices, and the breakdown of barriers between researcher and subject. The original contributions to this volume highlight the key topics that face contemporary qualitative researchers and those that will likely emerge in the near future. Written by many of the leading figures in the field—Lincoln, Denzin, Schwandt, Richardson, Ellis, Bochner, Morse, among others—this book will help shape the ethical response of the field to the challenges presented by the contemporary research environment.
Author : Patrick van der Duin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317543157
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Foresight in Organizations written by Patrick van der Duin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sara Polier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658261811
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Forward-looking External Search as a Driver for Innovation written by Sara Polier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this empirical analysis Sara Polier investigates forward-looking external search strategies and their impact on the value contribution of corporate foresight. Based on a mixed method approach combining a quantitative and qualitative analysis of large, R&D-intensive firms, the findings reveal a general positive influence of different search strategies with respect to the scope (i.e. breadth, depth, and distance) and direction of search (i.e. market, science, and intermediary-driven) on the role of foresight as a driver for innovation. This relationship is found to be mediated by a firm’s exploratory learning capability, which appears to facilitate the effective transfer of external future-related knowledge into valuable outputs.
Author : Patrick van der Duin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317417224
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Contextual Innovation Management written by Patrick van der Duin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation has a pivotal role for companies in attaining business survival but making an organization innovative is not straightforward. By determining contextual factors, managers can help decide how to employ a portfolio of innovation management processes. This book explores how contingency influence the management of innovation. Taking the perspective of innovation managers, the authors focus on the decision-making process to demonstrate that different approaches are required depending on the business context. In breaking the process into three levels (culture, industry and company), the book helps choose an optimal innovative approach. With references to real-world innovation cases and organizations, this book will prove useful reading for students and researchers in the field of innovation studies and management.
Author : Alberto F. De Toni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000216128
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Corporate Foresight written by Alberto F. De Toni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world changes like the patterns in a kaleidoscope: trends expand, contract, break up, melt, disintegrate and disappear, while others are formed. Change – as opposed to stasis – is our normal condition, the only certainty in our lives, hence the need to create tools that provide organizations with the means to tackle change and navigate complexity. We must accept the reality of constant change and be prepared for a heavy shift in perspective: interconnection versus separation, acceleration versus linearity and discontinuity versus continuity. Anticipating the future requires more than the traditional predictive models (forecasting) based on the forward projection of past experiences. Advanced methods use anticipation logic (foresight) and build probable scenarios taking into account weak signals, emerging trends, coexisting presents and potential paths of evolution. Corporate foresight is fundamental to interpret and lead change. The two cornerstones of foresight are organization and management. As concerns organization, the authors advocate the separation of research (oriented to the market of tomorrow) from development (oriented to the market of today), the establishment of a foresight unit and the concentration of research activities mainly on the acquisition and recombination of external know-how. As regards management, after an overview of state-of-the-art literature on forecasting methods, the authors propose the implementation of a "future coverage" methodology, which enables companies to measure and verify the consistency between trends, strategic vision and offered products. These organizational and managing tools are then tested in a case study: the Italian company Eurotech SpA, a leader in the ICT sector.
Author : Cristiano Cagnin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540688110
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Future-Oriented Technology Analysis written by Cristiano Cagnin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently, the concept and practice of strategic intelligence. FTA addresses directly the longer-term future through the active and continuous development of visions, and pathways to realise these visions. It is increasingly seen as a valuable management and policy tool complementing, and extending further into the future, classical strategy, planning, and decision-making approaches. This book charts the development of FTA and provides the first coherent description and analysis of its practical application and impact in the worlds of business, government, education and research in both advanced and developing countries. It draws on papers addressing the application of FTA around the globe which were presented at the Second International Seville Seminar in September 2006. The insights and practical experience will be invaluable for company managers, government ministers and officials, researchers and academics with responsibilities for effective planning and decision-making in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world.
Author : Jiuping Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031103858
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management – Volume 2 written by Jiuping Xu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers many hot topics, including theoretical and practical research in many areas such as dynamic analysis, machine learning, supply chain management, operations management, environmental management, uncertainty, and health and hygiene. It showcases advanced management concepts and innovative ideas. The 16th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (2022 ICMSEM) will be held in Ankara, Turkey during August 3-6, 2022. ICMSEM has always been committed to promoting innovation management science (M-S) and engineering management (EM) academic research and development. The book provides researchers and practitioners in the field of Management Science and Engineering Management (MSEM) with the latest, cutting-edge thinking and research in the field. It will appeal to readers interested in these fields, especially those looking for new ideas and research directions.
Author : Patrick A. Duin
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059722299
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Knowing Tomorrow? written by Patrick A. Duin and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Knowing Tomorrow, well known futures researchers from around the world [e.g., Italy, the U.K., the U.S.A, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Australia) discuss how the future is being dealt with in different sciences. They describe how scientists have incorporated the future in their theories, thereby often taking a historical perspective. The findings of this book can offer strong support to the scientific foundations of futures research and thus improve futures research as a scientific discipline."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Roman V. Yampolskiy
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039218549
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Artificial Superintelligence written by Roman V. Yampolskiy and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention in the AI safety community has increasingly started to include strategic considerations of coordination between relevant actors in the field of AI and AI safety, in addition to the steadily growing work on the technical considerations of building safe AI systems. This shift has several reasons: Multiplier effects, pragmatism, and urgency. Given the benefits of coordination between those working towards safe superintelligence, this book surveys promising research in this emerging field regarding AI safety. On a meta-level, the hope is that this book can serve as a map to inform those working in the field of AI coordination about other promising efforts. While this book focuses on AI safety coordination, coordination is important to most other known existential risks (e.g., biotechnology risks), and future, human-made existential risks. Thus, while most coordination strategies in this book are specific to superintelligence, we hope that some insights yield “collateral benefits” for the reduction of other existential risks, by creating an overall civilizational framework that increases robustness, resiliency, and antifragility.
Author : V. Bekkers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230307523
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Innovation in the Public Sector written by V. Bekkers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stefan N. Grösser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642292445
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Systemic Management for Intelligent Organizations written by Stefan N. Grösser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades increasingly have challenged the field of management by confronting it with rapidly growing levels of dynamism, inter-connectedness, and complexity. Systems-based management approaches, their promise already proven, offer great potentials for influencing and coping with this development. This collection of essays offers ideas and exemplary case studies from experts in systemic management, organiza-tional cybernetics, and system dynamics for meeting the challenges in so-cio-economic systems. This book was compiled to honor the academic achievement of Markus Schwaninger, a leading protagonist in developing the field of systemic management and organizational cybernetics. His stature in the field is demonstrated in the forewords by Raul Espejo and John Sterman. The efforts of 18 researchers and practitioners, all closely related to Markus Schwaninger, offer conceptual and empirical approaches that will allow managers and advanced students of the management profession to analyze, understand, and design intelligent organizations. The book weaves its content from both theory and practice and offers hints for improving a variety of organizations, both private and public, profit and non-profit, and large and small.
Author : Vanessa Ratten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315393379
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Sport Entrepreneurship and Innovation written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features international authors discussing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports context. It focuses on topics such as the role of entrepreneurial marketing in sport, how technological innovation has changed the way sport is played and viewed, the globalization of sport as a product and service, the new types of sports that have emerged, athlete entrepreneurs and their related business endeavors and how sport influences innovation in other industries. The main themes of the book include: 1) the development of sport entrepreneurship and innovation, 2) entrepreneurship and sport, 3) innovation in sport, 4) internationalization and entrepreneurial behavior in sport, 5) entrepreneurial sport marketing, 6) sport in entrepreneurial universities and 7) the future for sport entrepreneurship and innovation. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to entrepreneurship, innovation and sport management scholars, students and practitioners.
