Transition to Sustainable Employment: Using Backcasting Technique for Designing Policies

Alexandra Köves, Gábor Király, György Pataki and Bálint Balázs
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Gábor Király: Budapest Business School, Hungary
György Pataki: Corvinus University, Hungary
Bálint Balázs: Szent István University, Hungary

Managing Global Transitions, 2013, vol. 11, issue 2 (Summer), 119-139

Abstract: The article presents the experience and results of a research project that used the technique of backcasting. Backcasting is a preferred method in transition management – especially with regard to sustainability issues – as it facilitates the deliberation of complex socio-economic issues and enables participants to think freely outside the realms of present cognitive frames and still find adequate, future-oriented policy answers. In the case of this particular Hungarian backcasting experiment, a sustainable employment scenario was developed and policy recommendations were determined for reaching such a desired future. The article attempts to demonstrate that applying future-oriented methodological approaches can indeed lead to the design of feasible sustainability policies even when dealing with path-dependent systems burdened with lock-in effects.

Keywords: backcasting; deliberation; future studies; sustainable employment; transition management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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