Workshop Report: Blue Marble Thinking for the Future of Business in Society: Where Does the Business in Society Field Go from Here?

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sandra Waddock ◽  
Dawn R. Elm ◽  
David Wasieleski ◽  
Harry Van Buren ◽  
Sarah Glozer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Workshop Report ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Business In Society

Blue Marble or holistic systems thinking focuses on the big picture—the system as a whole. The ‘blue marble’ is Earth viewed from space, where it can be seen as an unboundaried whole. To understand the Blue Marble, we need to zoom out—and then zoom in to specific issues and systems—and then zoom back out again. Panelists outlined key issues facing the business in society field: the need to get the field “unstuck” towards the truly difficult, big picture issues facing the world today. Presenters discussed: what it means to be human today, how natural sciences can inform research, implications of inequality, organizational responsibilities in the digital age, and the importance of language, narrative, and metaphors. Discussion emphasized how to move the field towards greater understanding of complexity and the roles that businesses and we as scholars play in understanding and even working towards resolving those issues?

scholarly journals Children being children: the value of an “importance filter”

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Jonathon Sargeant
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Internal Information ◽  
Processing Mechanism

The perspectives of young children are of considerable interest to the community yet remains largely misunderstood. This paper posits that children demonstrate an optimistic view of the world and the future that is also encased in a deeper understanding of key global, local, and social issues than previously thought. This study challenges the notion that children are either adversely affected by knowledge or ignorant of global issues outside their control. The effects of external media and the reputed social decay of society and the pessimistic worldview reportedly held by young children are questioned. In acknowledging the children’s understanding of key issues, this research identifies that children engage in an internal metacognitive processing of information that allows them to maintain their optimistic view of the world. This paper introduces the concept of an Importance Filter, an internal information processing mechanism that assists children in making sense of their world.

How Man Fails to Use the Gifts of Nature and Science

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
John S. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

At present, the world has the resources and the knowledge to feed its population both now, and for the foreseeable future, and yet, hunger is still a major issue in many parts of the world today. By analysing the socio-economic factors involved, this paper demonstrates how farmers, scientists, businessmen and politicians around the world must Work together, making good use of available knowledge and natural resources, if they are to ensure an adequate and secure food supply for the population of the world today and in the future.

scholarly journals AIDS Incubation Period: A Statistical Review

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Sahana Prasad ◽  
Nagaraja Rao C. ◽  
T. Srivenkataramana
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Incubation Period ◽  
Calculation Method ◽  
Statistical Review ◽  
World Today ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Back Calculation ◽  
Socioeconomic Consequences

One of the major concerns of healthcare in the world today is HIV/AIDS.The health and socioeconomic consequences of a rapid spread of AIDS are very serious.Thus we need accurate forecasts of the future course of the epidemic.The special feature of AIDS is its long incubation period,whose distribution is difficult to estimate partly due to its length and partly due to its nature of the infected cohorts being followed or identified.This article mainly discusses the features of AIDS incubation period and reviews statistical analysis of a few models developed for the estimation of the incubation period.One of the i9mportant methods of projection namely,Back Calculation method is also discussed.

scholarly journals Review of Track Gauge for Trans-Sumatera Railway Revitalization and Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Soemino Eko Saputro ◽  
Prasadja Ricardianto ◽  
Haniva Mulyani ◽  
Primadi Candra Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Construction Equipment ◽  
International Standard ◽  
Railway Tracks ◽  
World Today ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The aim of this research is to comprehend in details how revitalization and development of railway infrastructure on the Trans-Sumatera line in Sumatera Island. The main problem in this research is that the use of railways in Sumatera Island is neither sustainable nor in all provinces. This research is both meta-analytical, by exploring the existing journals, and factual as a phenomenon in the utilization of spoor width that happens in the world today. It is completed by parameter or performance indicators as for benchmarking with other countries. From the result of this research, the data shows that almost 60 percent of existing railway tracks around the world have been installed with standard gauge of 1,435 mm and have been international standard. The benefit of this study is that the leaders or decision makers can take it into account to support the future transportation in Sumatera Island which must be oriented to bigger, faster, safer, cleaner, cheaper, affordable, and leisure. To keep exploiting the existing railway or track can be done by developing construction equipment of track gauge adjuster to change the wheel gauge from 1,435 mm to 1,067 mm. Subsequently re-gauging is done in stages, changing the track gauge from narrow gauge of 1,067 mm to standard gauge of 1,435 mm.

scholarly journals Czech and Slovak museology, current status and the future of this branch of science

1970 ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Jan Dolák
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Current Status ◽  
First Person ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
First Time

The first person to use the term “museology” in the Czech environment seems to have been Mr. Kliment Cermák, teacher and museologist, who for the first time formulated a need for special education to be provided for museum workers in his article Education in Museology from 1901 published under his editorship in the Bulletin of Czech & Slavonic Archaeological and Museum Association. His publication activities were continued by V. V. Jenícek in the magazine “Czech & Slavonic Museum Annals” between 1902 and 1910 and by Albín Stocký in the magazine “Museum Horizon” published between 1925 and 1928. In Slovakia, there were A. Kmet’ and F. Sasinek, and later P. Kri ko, M. Rybecký, A. Gregorová and M. Lalkovic, standing at the beginning and formation of museology. This generation, and for the most part also the following generation, were on a level comparable with the European elite but they published mainly in the Czech language, therefore they remained more or less hidden from the rest of the world. Museology undoubtedly has a long tradition in Central Europe and this paper aims to reflect the present status and key issues in the environment of the former Czechoslovakia. 

How Architects and Designers are Building the Future!

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Afsar ◽  
Adil Afsar
Keyword(s):  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Good For

The world today is evolving at a very rapid pace. The needs today won't be the needs of tomorrow. This shift of the needs and longing of humans to experience something beyond exceptional is not momentary. This shift is continuous and humans are pushing their limits to experience something which they haven't before. In order to quench that thirst, the products which satisfy their desires don't last long and that's why the products today are short lived and are not sustainable. This is very good for the economy in order to keep the cycle running espousing consumerism as well. This is giving a tough challenge to designers and architects of today to create something sustainable which can keep the people engaged for a long time. Thus, the designers and Architects are in the middle of this issue. Where they don't know whether they shall create something which is sustainable or something which is short lived and increases the desire of the consumer to look for what next.

Reappraisal of the role of the Red Cross

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (187) ◽  
pp. 493-505
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World Today ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Continual Reassessment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

A period of rapid change entails the continual reassessment of problems and values. Some years ago, therefore, it was felt necessary to analyse questions pertaining to the place of the Red Cross in the world today and its role in the future. In 1972, the ICRC and the League, in co-operation with the National Societies, decided to look ahead by studying the situation of the Red Cross from all angles. A joint committee was created for reappraisal of the role of the Red Cross; then, in 1973, the director of what came to be known as the “Big Study”, Mr. Donald D. Tansley, aided by a number of research workers, and with the support of the relevant departments of the ICRC, the League and the National Societies, began his investigations.

SOVEREIGNTY, COMMERCE, AND COSMOPOLITANISM: LESSONS FROM EARLY AMERICA FOR THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tomasi
Keyword(s):  
Early America ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

If socialism and liberalism are rivals, one ambition these rivals have shared is that of being a transnational, even universal doctrine. Socialists and liberals have each thought of their own view as being well designed to expand, to reach out and be taken up in an ever-growing number and variety of societies. I do not know whether now is the time to write the final obituary for the socialist version of this dream. But the universalizing dream most vivid before the minds of the inhabitants of the world today clearly is not the socialist one, but the liberal one. “Globalization,” in our day, has come to mean something very close to “liberalization.” For some this is a cause of celebration; for others, it is a cause of protest and despair.

Hybrid Workplace

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-48
Author(s):  
Kanwar Muhammad Javed Iqbal ◽  
Farooq Khalid ◽  
Sergey Yevgenievich Barykin
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid System ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Workplace Needs ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Work Arrangement

The hybrid workplace is a concept on the lips of every industry trend in the world today. With digitalization becoming more normalized across every sphere in the global village. Every workplace needs to maximize and transcend obstacles and innovations to ease into the hybrid workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a wave for an increased need for a hybrid workplace. Although some countries have relaxed the lockdown in their states, businesses are taking their time to set up a more formidable work arrangement. Many are already operating the hybrid system while others are running fully remote. The pandemic has taught the work a lesson of preparation and planning. Beyond that is also the lesson of flexibility and adaptability in the workplace. In prioritizing the future of work, there is the need to embrace the hybrid workplace model. Indeed, the future of work would likely be the hybrid workplace model.

The Future of Ecumenical Mission: An Assessment of the WCC's Harare Assembly

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Council ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Harare 1998, the Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, was designed to set new directions for the world body in this its jubilee year. In this article expectations and key issues are identified. The WCC at Harare modeled a new style for world conferences that gives space for expression and even confrontation of differing interests and convictions with cross-fertilization by delegates and invited guests. Priority issues for the world body in mission and evangelism are identified.

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