Gaspar Judit
@uni-corvinus.hu
Department of Decision Sciences, Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences
Corvinus University of Budapest
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Attila Szathmári, Alexandra Köves, and Judit Gáspár
Informa UK Limited
Judit Gáspár, Klaudia Gubová, Eva Hideg, Maciej Piotr Jagaciak, Lucie Mackova, András Márton, Weronika Rafał, Anna Sacio-Szymańska, and Eva Šerá Komlossyová
Emerald
Purpose The paper evaluates trends shaping the post-pandemic reality. The framework adopted is a case study of the V4 region (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) that illustrates broader trends, their direction of change and their influence on the entire region. This paper aims to identify key trends and analyse how they can facilitate or hinder sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a multidisciplinary literature review and an online real-time Delphi study carried out across four European countries. Findings The results indicate that the influence of negative trends on sustainability is much stronger than that of positive ones. Concerning the trends’ driving factors, the blockers of negative trends have a much higher influence on sustainability than the blockers of positive ones. The study shows that the most significant trends affecting sustainability are distributed throughout various fields of human activity, including geopolitics, social issues, education, the environment, technology and health. Practical implications The findings presented below can be used primarily by decision makers from the V4 region, who are responsible for crafting strategies regarding post-COVID recovery. The study illustrates trends that V4 countries and other European Union member states might be facing in the future and analyses how they relate to sustainability. The conclusions indicate that the most effective path to the desired level of sustainability is one that incorporates policies built around the blockers of negative trends. Originality/value The importance of this study lies in its focus on countries that had previously received little attention in scientific analyses. The paper shows their possible developmental pathways and sheds light on the framework of integrated foresight and its applications in sustainability-related areas.
Csanád Bodó, Blanka Barabás, Isabela Botezatu, Noémi Fazakas, Judit Gáspár, János Imre Heltai, Petteri Laihonen, Veronika Lajos, Gergely Szabó, and
Informa UK Limited
Réka Matolay, Linde Moriau, Emma McKenna, Andrea Toarniczky, Judit Gáspár, Márta Frigyik, Brecht Van der Schueren, Sinead McCann, Caroline McGowan, and Catherine Bates
Universitat Politècnica de València
The purpose is to explore the potential of Learning Circle (LC) approaches with an aim of equipping academic staff for Community Engaged Research and Learning (CERL) practices. We draw on the experiences from a three-year Erasmus+ project, CIRCLET. It aimed to meet the demand to better align higher education with the needs of the rapidly changing 21st century society, by enhancing the professional development of academic staff and fostering a culture of engagement. The article presents a case study-based argument that the LC – as a community of practice approach – is an effective instrument for, and has the potential to tackle, many of the challenges of professional development. We draw on a combined method, building case studies from post-interviews, personal notes and observations. We present four different cases, and offer suggestions for how LCs created a safe space, thus enabling learning at different levels which supported academics to build CERL into curricula.
Csanád Bodó, Blanka Barabás, Noémi Fazakas, Judit Gáspár, Bernadett Jani‐Demetriou, Petteri Laihonen, Veronika Lajos, and Gergely Szabó
Wiley
Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the incep-tion of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surround-ing the participation of those involved and engaged in the research process. This paper aims at reviewing the state of the art and outlining critical dimensions and aspects with relation to participation. We explore previous studies and study designs with the help of the following questions: Who has been involved? How and with what impact have stakeholders participated in different strands of sociolinguistic research? Current developments are presented and reviewed with particular reference to language expertise of those outside academia, as manifested in everyday talk about language, and the link between the production of this knowledge and social inequalities. We point out that the interconnectedness of everyday language expertise
Alexandra Köves, Tamás Veress, Judit Gáspár, and Réka Matolay
MDPI AG
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.
Edina Csákvári, Veronika Fabók, Sándor Bartha, Zoltán Barta, Péter Batáry, Gábor Borics, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Tibor Erős, Judit Gáspár, Éva Hideg,et al.
Elsevier BV
Éva Hideg, Barbara Mihók, Judit Gáspár, Péter Schmidt, András Márton, and András Báldi
Elsevier BV
Andrea Toarniczky, Réka Matolay, and Judit Gáspár
Elsevier BV
Anna Kononiuk, Anna Sacio-Szymańska, and Judit Gáspár
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Abstract The main aim of the paper is to present the synthesis of the results of methodological analysis conducted on examples of foresight projects executed in chosen companies representing four companies type: small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), nonprofit- organization, international corporations and consulting companies as well as to posit functional approach for the implementation of foresight research within organizations. The empirical part of the study is based on the qualitative approach. A multiple case study methodology is employed. The research objects are sixteen companies experienced in foresight research. The first part of the paper gives an overview of definitions of corporate foresight and the analysis of background that have influence on the conducting of foresight in large multinational companies on one side and SMEs on the other side. In the field of the theory of foresight research, the study demonstrates that there are different motivations for foresight introduction as well as different organizational structure of teams conducting the activities and the approaches that they use. In the practical perspective, the study and a detailed functional foresight approach proposed by authors could be valuable for SMEs who consider implementing foresight research into their strategic planning processes.
Anna Sacio-Szymańska, Anna Kononiuk, Stefano Tommei, Ondrej Valenta, Éva Hideg, Judit Gáspár, Peter Markovič, Klaudia Gubová, and Brigita Boorová
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Judit Gáspár
Akademiai Kiado Zrt.
Time is in constant motion: the present, the future and the past, although they are not concepts having a fixed meaning, they are present in everyday life both at the conscious and the unconscious levels. The author’s intention in this paper is to grasp the relationship of companies to time and to the future in the mature and nascent states of their life cycles. As discussed in this paper, this relationship may appear with little reflection in the form of assumptions in the eyes of strategy researchers and practitioners. At first the interrelatedness of theory and practice is discussed in order to focus on the role of scholars and practitioners in creating theory and putting it to practice or vice versa. This general introduction will lay the ground for the study of interpretations of the future and time from the perspective of strategy research and strategy practice, respectively.
Judit Balázs and Judit Gáspár
Elsevier BV