TY - JOUR ID - 46948 TI - Firm Future Readiness: Concept Presentation and Composite Index JO - Innovation Management Journal JA - IMJ LA - en SN - 2322-5386 AU - Ghadiri, amir AU - Tabatabaeian, Seyed Habibolah AU - Mohmmadi, Mehdi AU - Zolfagharzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi AU - Nazemi, Amir AD - Researcher of Research Institute for Technology Studies,Tehran AD - Allameh Tabatabaei University AD - University of Tehran AD - Member of Tehran Research Institute for Science Policy of Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 125 EP - 153 KW - Futures Studies KW - Company KW - Company Future Readiness Composite Indicator KW - Factor analysis DO - N2 - Companies are the motor of growth and development in all countries and they have special importance in all planning and policy making activities. Every decision in almost all companies is based on knowledge and future information of managers and experts inside the company who often makes their decisions based on looking to the future. Today, in an increasingly changing world, there are more necessary to focus on the future and identify future events and occurrences and managers and experts in a company should, having a good knowledge on these changes, increase their readiness for encountering to them and avoid from “strategic surprises”. In this research, tried to introduce a new concept in the field of futures studies i.e. “Company Future Readiness” in a composite indicator, so that companies using that can evaluate and promote their future readiness in encountering to future and its changes. For this, methodology of developing composite indicators was used and basic conceptual framework was developed based on literature review. Then by a survey on large knowledge based companies, data was gathered so that the basic framework was analyzed by using factor analysis method. By doing this research, a company future readiness composite indicator was developed which consists of 17 variables and 120 questions. UR - https://www.nowavari.ir/article_46948.html L1 - https://www.nowavari.ir/article_46948_98497ba2b669a2e8e807a2d4e24a01ac.pdf ER -