Adjunct Professor
George Cairns
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
Scenario Methods - use of scenario methods to inform strategic analysis and decision making, Stakeholder Analysis - assessing the impacts of business decisions on remote / excluded stakeholders, International Business - researching non-mainstream IB activities and impacts on society, Qualitative Research - applying critical management research methods, Architectural Design - research into user needs for and responses to building design
Research field
Business and Management, Architecture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Professional memberships and associations
Publications
- Cairns, G. & Wright, G. (2018). Scenario thinking: Preparing your organization for the future in an unpredictable world (Second edition). Palgrave Macmillan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/215501
- Wright, G., Cairns, G., O'Brien, F. & Goodwin, P. (2019). Scenario analysis to support decision making in addressing wicked problems: Pitfalls and potential. European Journal of Operational Research, 278(1), 3–19. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121758
- Cairns, G., Goodwin, P. & Wright, G. (2016). A decision-analysis-based framework for analysing stakeholder behaviour in scenario planning. European Journal of Operational Research, 249(3), 1050–1062. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86535
- Cairns, G., Wright, G. & Fairbrother, P. (2016). Promoting articulated action from diverse stakeholders in response to public policy scenarios: A case analysis of the use of 'scenario improvisation' method. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 103, 97–108. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90902
- Bradfield, R., Cairns, G. & Wright, G. (2015). Teaching scenario analysis - An action learning pedagogy. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 100, 44–52. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84669
- Wright, G., Cairns, G. & Bradfield, R. (2013). Scenario methodology: New developments in theory and practice: Introduction to the Special Issue. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(4), 561–565. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101939
- Cairns, G., Ahmed, I., Mullett, J. & Wright, G. (2013). Scenario method and stakeholder engagement: Critical reflections on a climate change scenarios case study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(1), 1–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101919
- Wright, G., Cairns, G. & Goodwin, P. (2009). Teaching scenario planning: Lessons from practice in academe and business. European Journal of Operational Research, 194(1), 323–335. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101940
- Cairns, G. & Sliwa, M. (2008). A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about international business. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102020
- Cairns, G., (2008). Advocating an ambivalent approach to theorizing the built environment. Building Research and Information, 36(3), 280–289. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102001
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