Focus theme issue: Celebrating the ADF‐EXD partnership: A look back into the future of experimental dermatology

Eula Bingham, toxicologist and former head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is now at that place in her professional life where she can look back over her long career and identify its turning points and evaluate what worked and what didn't, what was important and what of lesser significance. In two interviews, she also looks at the present and the future and expresses concerns about the way we live now.

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Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas: The Future of International Liner Shipping

Journal of Transportation Management ◽

10.22237/jotm/1157069100 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 28-38

Author(s):

David A Menachof

Keyword(s):

Liner Shipping ◽

International Shipping ◽

Look Back ◽

The World ◽

The Future

The last 5 years have been exciting for the world of international liner shipping. Mergers, new and larger vessels, charter rates becoming more volatile and demand continuing to increase are just part of this world of liner shipping. This article is an attempt to highlight some of the issues that will be affecting international shipping in the forthcoming years. At its best, this article will be right on the money. At its worst, readers will look back at this article and wonder how the author could have been so wrong. More likely is that some things will occur as predicted, while others have not even been thought of yet.

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The American Academy of Ophthalmology's IRIS ® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight Clinical Data): A Look Back and a Look to the Future

Ophthalmology ◽

10.1016/j.ophtha.2017.08.035 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 124 (11) ◽

pp. 1572-1574 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

David W. Parke ◽

William L. Rich ◽

Alfred Sommer ◽

Flora Lum

Keyword(s):

American Academy ◽

Clinical Data ◽

Look Back ◽

The Future

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Marburg- and Ebolaviruses: A Look Back and Lessons for the Future

Ebolaviruses - Methods in Molecular Biology ◽

10.1007/978-1-4939-7116-9_1 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 3-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hans Dieter Klenk ◽

Werner Slenczka

Keyword(s):

Look Back ◽

The Future

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The value of online surveys: a look back and a look ahead

Internet Research ◽

10.1108/intr-03-2018-0089 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 854-887 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Joel R. Evans ◽

Anil Mathur

Keyword(s):

Survey Research ◽

Online Survey ◽

New Technologies ◽

Actual Behavior ◽

Online Surveys ◽

Content Type ◽

Look Ahead ◽

Look Back ◽

The Future ◽

The Look

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed and critical look at the evolution of online survey research since Evans and Mathur’s (2005) article on the value of online surveys. At that time, online survey research was in its early stages. Also covered are the present and future states of online research. Many conclusions and recommendations are presented. Design/methodology/approach The look back focuses on online surveys, strengths and weaknesses of online surveys, the literature on several aspects of online surveys and online survey best practices. The look ahead focuses on emerging survey technologies and methodologies, and new non-survey technologies and methodologies. Conclusions and recommendations are provided. Findings Online survey research is used more frequently and better accepted by researchers than in 2005. Yet, survey techniques are still regularly transformed by new technologies. Non-survey digital research is also more prominent than in 2005 and can better track actual behavior than surveys can. Hybrid surveys will be widespread in the future. Practical implications The paper aims to provide insights for researchers with different levels of online survey experience. And both academics and practitioners should gain insights. Social implications Adhering to a strong ethics code is vital to gain respondents’ trust and to produce valid results. Originality/value Conclusions and recommendations are offered in these specific areas: defining concepts, understanding the future role of surveys, developing and implementing surveys and a survey code of ethics. The literature review cites more than 200 sources.

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Does organizational action research have a future?

International Journal of Action Research ◽

10.3224/ijar.v15i3.02 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (3-2019) ◽

pp. 180-197

Author(s):

Marianne Kristiansen ◽

Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

20Th Century ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Research Project ◽

Good Opportunity ◽

Look Back ◽

The Future ◽

Organizational Action ◽

The Way

This is not an ordinary article. It was written in response to some questions that the current and the former IJAR editors-in-chief asked us to reflect on. We did so gratefully, because this was a good opportunity to look back on 25 years of doing AR in organisations. The article describes four challenges of future organisational action research. Firstly, in the future an increasing number of skilled employees will make it necessary to move from co-influence of how to implement goals, to a greater degree of co-determination. Secondly, the article argues there is a need for an increased focus on documenting AR processes. Thirdly, the article calls for more selfcritical reflections on the concrete ways action researchers exercise power. Fourthly, questioning the possibilities of doing AR in organisations will become important in the future, due to socio-economic conditions such as lack of time. The article is based on a four-year research project that we carried out on various American and European approaches to action research in organisations in the 20th century. It includes, too, a description of our different personal ways into AR and some of the AR concepts we developed along the way.

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