FTA and equity: New approaches to governance

Cagnin, Cristiano; Loveridge, Denis; Sarıtas, Ozcan

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2010.11.006

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“…Partly in response to criticisms about EU technocratic governance [39], the EC has sought to clarify its routines for the collection and use of expertise over the early 2000s [40,41]. In line with the rationales given in the FS literature for inclusive approaches to technology assessment [12], new guidelines for the use of expert advice in strategic planning and foresight have called for variously defined "interested parties" to be consulted, with the explicit aim of adding legitimacy to issue definitions and problem framings [42]. These ambitions were applied to ETPs from their very inception, when the EC recognized that since "technology platforms address major economic and societal challenges, the societal dimension should be taken into account throughout their development [10]."…”

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“…Some FS scholars have pointed to the limitations on predictive expertise when it comes to the societal implications of developments in science and technology [11,12], indicating that issues of stakeholder participation and representational legitimacy are particularly important in cases where prediction deals with contentious technologies-a core research area in STS. The following article therefore focuses on the activities of an ETP formed around a technology that has at times been the subject of heated public debate and protests.…”

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Limits to prediction: Europeanizing technology in an expert forum

Gjefsen

2013

Eur J Futures Res

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EU expert institutions delivering policy advice about the promise of emerging technologies, help frame the issues that technologies might address. Their assumptions about European contexts for technology futures therefore warrant critical attention. Drawing on current theoretical work in science and technology studies, archival research and interviews with policy actors, this article examines the European Commission's recently established European Technology Platforms. It focuses in particular on the industry stakeholder group advising the Commission on carbon capture and storage, a technology with implications for several industry and policy sectors. The paper demonstrates how expert-produced technology scenarios build on assumptions (1) about the polities the technology is thought to serve, and (2) the political priorities that it might address. By showing how such assumptions affect on-going technology development efforts, the paper suggests ways for sociotechnical dynamics to be better appreciated within EU units for technology planning.

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Limits to prediction: Europeanizing technology in an expert forum

Gjefsen

2013

Eur J Futures Res

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“…Accordingly, the efforts of the profession alone to respond to various corporate failures, and more recently the global financial crises, are not enough (Carcello et al, 2011;Bayou et al, 2011;Cagnin et al, 2011;Odendaal and De Jager, 2008;Riotto, 2008;Unerman and O'Dwyer, 2004).. Delegitimized structures are, therefore, 'quarantined' and monitors put in place by independent regulators to prevent subsequent failures (Suchman, 1995). The promulgation of SOX, with mandatory audit quality provisions (Riotto, 2008;Sy and Tinker, 2008;Bronson et al, 2011;Cullinan et al, 2012); formation of the PCAOB (Mosso, 2003;Kaplan and Williams, 2012), revocation of Author Anderson's license (Unerman and O'Dwyer, 2004); and calls for separation of non-assurance practice from existing audit firms (Wines, 2012;Bazerman and Moore, 2011;European Commission, 2010) serve as examples.…”

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“…and 'due care' amount to a 'professional mystique' that is used to further the economic interests of members of the profession with little regard for the public interest (for examples, see Cagnin et al, 2011;Pesqueux, 2005, Humphrey et al, 1992. This line of thought, while interesting, is deferred for subsequent research to allow this paper to make an initial clear case for the relevance of legitimacy theory in a practical audit setting.…”

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Whistle-blowing by external auditors: Seeking legitimacy for the South African Audit Profession?

Maroun

Solomon

2014

Accounting Forum

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Auditing is often cited as playing an important role in managing agency-related costs and, accordingly, being integral to the sound functioning of capital markets. There may, however, be more to the attest function than simply a technical rational practice. By virtue of relying heavily on claims to technical expertise, professionalism, prudential judgement and public confidence auditing is both a source of legitimacy for organisations while, paradoxically, dependent on claims to legitimacy for its own continued existence. From this perspective, recent regulatory developments purportedly enacted to increase arms length control over the profession may not only be about improving perceived audit quality and practice but also about ensuring continued faith in the well-established 'rituals' of the assurance function. A reporting duty imposed on South African external auditors, akin to whistle-blowing, is used as a case study to explore this perspective. In doing so, this paper contributes to the scant body of interpretive research on auditing simultaneously offering one of the first insights into auditing regulation form an African perspective.

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“…In the first, methods and tools necessary to analyse, assess, predict the development of technologies (Huang et al 2012b) as well as manage their future were used (Cheng et al 2008). In the second, FTA began to be treated as a tool for policy-making, a tool used by policymakers (Cagnin et al 2011;Carabias-Huetter, Haegeman 2013;Georghiou, Harper 2013;Kim et al 2010;Marinho, Cagnin 2014;Weber et al 2012). The research conducted by the author is located in the first mainstream, the technology mainstream.…”

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Innovative Classification of Methods of the Future-Oriented Technology Analysis

Halicka

2016

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Abstract. In the era characterized by significant dynamics of the environment traditional methods of anticipating the future, assuming the immutability of the factors affecting the forecasted phenomenon, may be in the long term ineffective. The modern approach of predicting the future of technology, taking into account the multidimensionality of the environment, is, among other things, the Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA). Designing the FTA research procedure is a complex process, both in organizational and methodological terms. The catalogue of methods that can be used in this process is extensive and constantly open. However, in the source literature the rules for the selection of methods appropriate for the type of research were not specified. The ways of combining methods in the research process were also missing. The main aim of this article was to present the author's classification of methods of future-oriented technology analysis and indicate the possibilities of its application. In the text, using statistical methods and artificial neural networks, the classification of methods with the potential of exploitation in prospective technology analysis was carried out. Each of the received classes was analysed, the characteristics of particular groups of methods were selected, and authorial names characterizing the given classes were chosen. According to the author, the application of the proposed classification of methods of future-oriented technology analysis facilitates the design of the FTA research process. It will contribute to the systematization and standardization of the manner of selection of research methods. It will also allow for the selection of complementary methods.

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FTA and equity: New approaches to governance

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Limits to prediction: Europeanizing technology in an expert forum

Limits to prediction: Europeanizing technology in an expert forum

Whistle-blowing by external auditors: Seeking legitimacy for the South African Audit Profession?

Innovative Classification of Methods of the Future-Oriented Technology Analysis

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