Social forecasting for company planning
By: edited by Brian C. Twiss.
Contributors: Twiss, Brian C.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Business planning.; Social prediction.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: The concepts and techniques of social forecasting / Brian C. Twiss; value: Macro-social forecasting and areas of ignorance / Ronald J. Brech; value: Measuring change in social attitudes / Tom Punt; value: Discontinuities in social attitudes / Peter M.S. Jones; value: Designing and installing a system for social forecasting / Geoffrey K. Morris; value: Social forecasting in Lucas / Bernard Jones; value: Social forecasting in Pilkington / Philip Holroyd; value: Historical perspectives of societal change and the use of scenarios at Shell / Michael Jefferson; value: Socio-political forecasting / Ian H. Wilson; value: The use of cross-impact analysis for social forecasting at Monsanto / J. Kenneth Craver; value: Forecasts of trends in post-industrial society / Tom Stonier and Peter Thornton; value: A psycho-socio-politico-economic view of the future / Ronald J. Brech.