The Faculty of Business and Enterprise (FBE) has an active research centre with over 120 doctroral students and twenty professors all researching various aspects of entrepreneurship, innovation and the commercialisation of innovation, marketing, strategy, leadership and organisation dynamics, as well as international business and accounting. In addition to new venture creation, there is an active interest in corporate entrepreneurship and in social entrepreneurship.
The diverse research interests and output of the doctoral students and staff are highlighted in the Faculty's annual research reports:
The Strategic Foresight Program (formally the Australian Foresight Institute) at the AGSE undertook a number of research activities during 2001-2004. The outputs of these are in the form of Monographs.
The Strategic Foresight Monograph Series (2003-2006) is now available for full download:
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Monograph 10
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Pathways and Impediments to Social Foresight
Slaughter, Richard (2006)
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This Monograph is the final in the series
and draws the Australian Foresight Institute research program 'Creating and Sustaining Social Foresight' to a conclusion. Dr Slaughter considers the limitations of conventional views of the future in the immediate regional (Australian and New Zealand) context and also why the future still appears to be a 'missing dimension' in so many places. Download |
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Monograph 9
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Foresight and Philanthropy: Towards a New Alliance
Slaughter, Richard, De Simone, Serafino, & Braidotti, Gio (2005) |
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Foresight and philanthropy have many common themes, and at the intersection of the two is an opportunity for both to accelerate the achievement their shared goal: the improvement of well-being in societies. Download |
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Monograph 8
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Creating and Sustaining Foresight in Australia: A review of Government Foresight
Conway, Maree & Stewart, Chris (2004) |
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This monograph explores ways for the Australian Government to consider how it might implement a National Foresight Strategy to inform its policy decision making and contribute to the development of Australia's social foresight capacity. Download
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Monograph 7
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Foresight Practice in Australia : A Meta-scan of Practitioners and Organisations
Ramos, Jose (2004) |
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This critical review of foresight professionals seeks to analyse their social interests, methodology, epistemological focal domains, capacitating focus, geography and organisational type. The call for a deeper understanding of the practice in the Australian context is made in order for the foundations for a National Foresight Strategy to be laid. Download |
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Monograph 6
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The Transformative Cycle
Slaughter, Richard, Naismith, Luke & Houghton, Neil (2004) |
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Theories of change inform the development of a foresight capability based on reflexive understanding of the dialectical movement between context, theory and practice. This monograph illustrates the development of a concept into a tool, which is then developed as a meta-theory of change. Download
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Monograph 5
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Futures in Education: Principles, Practices and Potential
Gidley, Jennifer, Bateman, Debra & Smith, Caroline (2004) |
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Futures in education provide young people with essential motivation and a range of proactive skills. This monograph examines how equipping young people with the tools and concepts of futures creates the opportunity for a futures discourse as it is this discourse which underpins a society-wide capacity for foresight. Download |
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Monograph 4
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Reframing Environmental Scanning: A reader on the Art of Scanning the Environment
Voros, Joseph (ed) (2003) |
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Environmental scanning is often conceived as a rational, analytical, programmed activity. The collected papers in this monograph challenge this notion by illustrating that the interior consciousness of the scanner is as important as the material being scanned. Download |
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Monograph 3
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Wider and Deeper: Review and Critique of Science and Technology Foresight Exercises in the 1990s
Wynberg, Andrew (2003) |
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National science and technology foresight (S&TF) exercises have been used in many developed countries since the 1970s. This monograph presents an overview of the objectives and methodologies of science and technology foresight exercises in the 1990s. Download |
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Monograph 2
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From Critique to Cultural Recovery: Critical Futures Studies and Casual Layered Analysis
Ramos, Jose (2003) |
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Critical futures studies is not about the careers of a few scholars, rather it is about projects that transcend the narrow boundaries of the self. This biographical monograph examines the life and work of Richard Slaughter and Sohail Inayatullah. Download |
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Monograph 1
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Foresight in Everyday Life
Hayward, Peter (2003)
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This monograph contributes to our understanding of the human capacities involved in foresight and it provides a foundation upon which the development of an applied foresight capability can be considered. Download |
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