Social Forecasting for Company Planning

✍ Scribed by Brian C. Twiss (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1982
Tongue: English
Leaves: 331
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Concepts and Techniques of Social Forecasting....Pages 3-24
Macro-social Forecasting and Areas of Ignorance....Pages 25-60
Measuring Change in Social Attitudes — Leading Indicators....Pages 61-75
Discontinuities in Social Attitudes....Pages 76-108
Designing and Installing a System for Social Forecasting....Pages 109-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Social Forecasting in Lucas....Pages 139-157
Social Forecasting in Pilkington: Two Examples....Pages 158-187
Historical Perspectives of Societal Change and the use of Scenarios at Shell....Pages 188-209
Socio-political Forecasting: the General Electric Experience....Pages 210-238
The Use of Cross-impact Analysis for Social Forecasting at Monsanto — An Example....Pages 239-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Forecasts of Trends in the Post-Industrial Society....Pages 255-271
A Psycho-Socio-Politico-Economic View of the Future....Pages 272-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-310

✦ Subjects

Industries; Sociology, general

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