List of Articles Futures studies approach

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  1 - The Role of Intellectual Capital on promoting the Performance of Knowledge-Based Companies with Futures studies approach: A Qualitative Study
  Masoumeh Mohammadabadi Kiumars Niazazari negin jabbary
  Futures Studies is the knowledge of intelligent analysis, design and establishment of future, an effort which analyzes resources and patterns to visualize the future and plan for it. The most important function of future studies is to create an image of the future to im More

  Futures Studies is the knowledge of intelligent analysis, design and establishment of future, an effort which analyzes resources and patterns to visualize the future and plan for it. The most important function of future studies is to create an image of the future to improve it. Knowledge-based companies, as the most tangible method of commercialization of the results of high tech research and producing a high added value, require a concept to provide a picture of the future for improvement and performance enhancements. As a result, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of intellectual capital on promoting the performance of knowledge-based companies with a Futures studies approach. Conducting the research with a qualitative method, for the in-depth study of the concepts concerned, the method of studying the documents and examining theoretical foundations as well as semi-structured interviews were used. Participants, 15 experts and specialists well-known in the knowledge-based companies of North Khorasan in the year 97 which were selected using purposeful sampling and snowball method to theoretical saturation boundary. In order to check the accuracy of the findings, the method of investigation by the members was used. To determine the reliability, a reliability method between two encoders was used. Data analysis was performed using inductive content analysis (6-step technique of Auerbach and Silverstein). Findings showed that with futuristic approach, the effect of intellectual capital on improving the performance of knowledge-based companies can be seen in two categories; inter-organizational effects (innovation and value creation, team building and decentralization, organizational learning, knowledge management, transformational leadership, meritocracy, technology acceptance) and external effects (networking, customer valuation and market orientation, branding and internationalization). This model can be used in decisions made to improve the performance of each company in accordance with the corporate strategy and culture. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Analysis of Factors Affecting The Development of Border Cities By Futures Studies Approach(Case study: city of Zabol)
  Saeed Najafi
  Geographical location and communication Zabol border provinces has led to the development of the city,the regional development in the province and the country's relations with the countries of the region.What is required revision in approach and application of new tools More

  Geographical location and communication Zabol border provinces has led to the development of the city,the regional development in the province and the country's relations with the countries of the region.What is required revision in approach and application of new tools in planning.Foresight as a new approach, a process that will lead to sustainable results is planned.In this regard, this research, foresight approach to the analysis of the factors influencing the development of border cities and the influence of these factors on each other and on the future status of the city of Zabol about the study.New research method based on futures, explain and to collect information from documents and survey methods were used.For data analysis,interaction/structure is used by software MICMAC. The results showed that in the first stage, Delphi method, 25 factors were identified. What is the distribution of the variables affecting the future development of the situation in the border town of Zabol you can see,the situation is more unstable system variables are scattered around the shaft diagonal screen.So five categories(factors influencing, planar factors, regulatory factors, impressionable factors and independent factors) are identifiable.The highest amount of influence variables tourism potentials, immigration, environmental and natural and agricultural capacity, The central role of the city in Sistan area, transit benefits the East, inefficient executives and political conflict, poor of rail connections with neighboring population centers, The potential occurrence and intensity of social abnormalities,being in the international narcotics trade and the situation will be the future development of the city. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Analysis of key factors affecting the housing of low-income urban groups Case study: Rasht city
  samad samie Mehrdad ramzanipour Leila Ebrahimi amane haghzad
  Housing is durable, immovable, multidimensional, heterogeneous, and costly goods. Housing plays a very significant role in the social organization of space. Therefore, some policies must be taken in housing planning to facilitate the access terms to housing for each soc More

  Housing is durable, immovable, multidimensional, heterogeneous, and costly goods. Housing plays a very significant role in the social organization of space. Therefore, some policies must be taken in housing planning to facilitate the access terms to housing for each social group,in particular, low-income groups. One of the modern methods to achieve this goal in planning is the futurology-based methods. In this regard, the current study aims to identify the influential factors in the urban housing of the low-income class. This study is applied in terms of purpose and analytical-descriptive in terms of nature. Library and survey studies were used to collect the information. The statistical population of the research is the experts in housing and low-income groups. 35 experts were selected using a purposive sampling method due to the unknown number of the population. The applied indicators consist of 43 variables in 5 different aspects. Environmental scanning technique, Delphi method, and Mic Mac software were used to analyze data. According to the findings obtained from the Delphi method and environmental scanning, 43 factors affecting the housing planning of the low-income class of Rasht City were identified. After analyzing by Mic Mac software, 15 factors including housing price, unemployment, inappropriate poverty alleviation policies, population growth rate, housing rent, construction materials, public and private investments, land price, construction credits, construction costs, lack of proper urban governance, unfair distribution of power sources, income, inflation, tolls and taxes, were recognized as the main factors affecting the housing development of low-income groups of the city. Manuscript profile