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Transition to Sustainable Employment: Using Backcasting Technique for Designing Policies

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  • Alexandra Köves

    (Corvinus University, Hungary)

  • Gábor Király

    (Budapest Business School, Hungary)

  • György Pataki

    (Corvinus University, Hungary)

  • Bálint Balázs

    (Szent István University, Hungary)

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.

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  • Alexandra Köves & Gábor Király & György Pataki & Bálint Balázs, 2013. "Transition to Sustainable Employment: Using Backcasting Technique for Designing Policies," Managing Global Transitions, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, vol. 11(2 (Summer), pages 119-139.
    • Handle: RePEc:mgt:youmgt:v:11:y:2013:i:2:p:119-139
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    1. Sanne, Christer, 2002. "Willing consumers--or locked-in? Policies for a sustainable consumption," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(1-2), pages 273-287, August.
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    Keywords

    backcasting; deliberation; future studies; sustainable employment; transition management;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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