Models of (future) society: Bringing social theories back in backcasting

Király, Gábor; Pataki, György; Köves, Alexandra; Balázs, Bálint

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2013.05.001

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“…The findings are strongly linked to the participants' and researchers' interpretations and value-driven assumptions. We are also aware that these findings only reflect the cognitive understandings and desires of the twelve expert participants, and the socioeconomic background of these participants strongly influences the outcome of this research [84]. It could be highly valuable to run the same processes with more people, or people from diverse backgrounds, or in countries with different dominant social theories.…”

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Conceptualizing Cuvée Organizations: Characteristics Leading towards Sustainable Decision-Making Practices

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This paper discusses the role and responsibility of business organizations in a sustainability transition with a thought-provoking hypothetical construct, the cuvée organization. The aim of the paper is to introduce and conceptualize this normative concept on what sustainable and responsible business would look like in an ideal world—more specifically, which meta features should characterize a business organization that is designed for sustainability? It also tests the concept’s applicability to a micro-process, an everyday challenge any organization aiming for sustainability would face, namely discounting. The concept of the cuvée organization emerged from participatory backcasting, a normative scenario-building exercise conducted with a sustainability expert panel. In this co-creative process, the panel capitalized on the metaphor of cuvée wine and winemaking, which provided the cognitive means to chart the unknown. The emerged concept of the cuvée organization stands for a business archetype which is designed to serve a prosocial cause, subordinating activities and structural features accordingly. When applying this construct to discounting, our approach lies with ecological rationality in behavioral decision making as well as the practice-based approach of corporate strategy research. In this theoretically rigorous effort, we aim to show which meta-characteristics could support an organizational structure leading to better decision making, aiming to avoid various forms of temporal and spatial discounting. The originality of the research is filling the normative vision with details through the conceptualization of the cuvée organization. On the level of methodologies, our research contributes to understanding the novelty and applicability of backcasting processes and provides an astounding example for the use of metaphors in future studies.

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“…It gives us some insights into what this specific group of sport economics students sees as a possible and desired normative scenario, but we must be aware that this is also a reflection on the current stages of social dialogue on sustainability. As it also reflects on the social theories dominant in the discourses of the society they operate in (Kir aly et al 2013), they may not apply to all societies. Nonetheless, using research tools such as backcasting can support any communitiesin our case those dealing with sportsin uncovering potential ways forward.…”

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The vision of sustainable sport in a backcasting research

Köves

Szathmári

Herr

2021

SocEc

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It is now becoming widely accepted that our economy has reached the limits both in terms of the carrying capacity of our planet and in terms of bringing real social justice to the table. Degrowth is a research area that aims to transcend mainstream approaches. While moving beyond the growth paradigm would entail serious changes in all areas of social life and Degrowth research extends into most of them, the transformation of sports is not among them. Neither is Degrowth a recognised concept among those who deal with sports. The participatory backcasting research introduced in this paper attempts to fill this void. In the backcasting project, master students of sports economics envisioned the sustainable future of sports and identified potential intervention steps that lead towards such normative states. This paper describes the results and assesses those elements that aim for strong sustainability. The results show that relocalisation and the sharing economy are the most accepted Degrowth concepts in a normative scenario on sustainable sports in this group. At the same time, the paper offers frameworks of thoughts for those who want to move beyond the slogans of sustainability either as responsible citizens or in positions related to the world of sports.

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“…In this respect, a bottom‐up approach engaging various actors will lay the foundations for reducing the European democratic deficit in response to the selection and complex processes of European institutions (Hallstrom, ), which increase mistrust and euro‐scepticism. To this extent, the “Actor‐network‐theory” presented Király, Pataki, Köves and Balázs () examination of the future of the society, can be reinforced and implemented through the lens of our two scenarios. Undoubtedly, the involvement of the local communities during sustainable development planning demands time and long‐term design.…”

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Unlock Local Forces and Improve Legitimacy: A Decision Making Scheme in the European Union Towards Environmental Change

Αποστολόπουλος¹,

Liargovas²

2018

European Policy Analysis

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This article develops an innovative scheme, beyond the existing decision making system, towards a participative and deliberative approach to environmental policies in the European Union. It adopts a bottom‐up approach whereby environmental priorities reach the European level directly from the local networking process and engagement. Indeed, there is a gap in the literature regarding conceptual approaches based on decision making schemes that can unlock local forces towards environmental change. By using a multi‐criteria method, two scenarios (direct democratic and pre‐defined bottom‐up) of social‐network modeling are created. Both scenarios aim to promote the effective use of social networks through aggregation functions to combine the responses of local stakeholders. This paper contributes to the academic debate of the interaction between public engagement and environmental policies. It does not advocate that the debate in political level can be replaced by math‐based decision making schemes but the use of them can enrich political discussions.

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Models of (future) society: Bringing social theories back in backcasting

Cited by 18 publications

References 34 publications

Conceptualizing Cuvée Organizations: Characteristics Leading towards Sustainable Decision-Making Practices

Conceptualizing Cuvée Organizations: Characteristics Leading towards Sustainable Decision-Making Practices

The vision of sustainable sport in a backcasting research

Unlock Local Forces and Improve Legitimacy: A Decision Making Scheme in the European Union Towards Environmental Change

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