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Elif Çepni

Çepni, Elif

Çepni, Elif

Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Vice Rector, Karabük University, Turkey; UNESCO Chair Holder of Anticipation Studies, Futures Literacy and Strategic Foresight

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Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Vice Rector, Karabük University, Turkey; UNESCO Chair Holder of Anticipation Studies, Futures Literacy and Strategic Foresight

Elif Cepni is a professor of economics and decision making and currently she is the Vice Rector of Karabuk University. She is a UNESCO Chair holder on Anticipation Studies, Futures Literacy and Strategic Foresight. Formerly she acted as the Rector of Dogus University and Vice Rector of Bahcesehir University. She is the author of A Guide for Economic and Financial Indicators, as well as The Economy of Turkey in Retrospect and Let’s Get Developed. In addition to her writing, she has also taught courses ranging from “Financial Literacy, “Macroeconomics” to “Development Economics” and “Scenario Planning and Strategic Foresight”.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

A Scale Development for VUCA World Management   ( Social Science )
A Scale Development for Volatile-Uncertain-Complex-Ambiguous (VUCA) World Management Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This article is an attempt to develop a questionnaire, which presently is unavailable in the literature, so that the Volatile-Uncertain-Complex-Ambiguous (VUCA) world can be understood and relatively measured by governments, companies, and institutions. The aim is to measure the dynamics of VUCA in the framework of the economic unit (region, country, economic sector) within the...
Who should Govern on what Principles? The Future of Decision Making Combining Nudge with Scenarios to reach Eutopia
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The main aim of this paper is to discuss the theories of decision-making, the problems of predictions and how the tools utilized for the process of decision-making at the macro-level could be enhanced for policy makers in our post-normal times. Decision-making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision maker deriving from several perspectives (psychological, cognitive, and normative). Decision...
Transforming Education for a Transition into Human-centered Economy and Post-normal Times   ( Economic Theory ), ( Education ), ( Money & Finance ), ( New Economics )
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Solutions to the major problems of our time require a radical shift in our perceptions, thinking and values. Post-normal times (characterized by complexity, chaos and contradictions), post-normal science (characterized by uncertainties, systems view of thinking, alternative perspectives, unknown unknowns, values) and human-centered economy are conceptions that we need to take into consideration to define a new role for science. Managing the transition from...