their own strategic planning or decision-making processes. The FFF provided participants with techno-economic modelling outputs that, together with qualitative insights from stakeholder dialogue, were drawn on articulate the major challenges for Australia in “to arriving at a secure and sustainable transport fuel mix to 2050” (CSIRO 2007). In June 2008, CSIRO released the main public report entitled (CSIRO Fuel for Thought 2008) and an associated modelling report. The scenarios contained in these reports explored different trajectories for international oil supplies (including near-term oil’ events, ‘peak where this occurred by 2013), climate policy, and alternative fuels. Below we explore this case to consider the utility of a field perspective to scenario planning. We use field theory a set of orienting concepts” (Fligstein & McAdam 2012b, p. 185). “as Considering the Future Fuels Forum through the lens of field theory Process context: Field states and the broader field environment As noted in section 3 various social orders can be conceptualised as SAFs including markets, industry sectors, policy domains, and formal organisations (e.g. firms and government organisations). In this respect, all FFF participants can be analysed as SAFs. Here, we focus on a limited number of SAFs (see the convenor (i.e. the Flagship), CSIRO, private Table 1): sector organisations who participated in the FFF, and associated economic fields. Table 1: Field states (at the time of the Future Fuels Forum) and key participants Fields(s) Field state Key forum Related forum participant(s) participants Flagship Flagship: still stabilising staff Potential Flagship and CSIRO (emerging); needed to stabilise clients from industry internal relations and secure (E.g. GM Holden) and external partnerships. government agencies Government agencies CSIRO: seeking to stabilise None the field and ‘resettlement’ improved government relations Australian vehicle market and local Holden Victorian Government automotive automotive manufacturing Australian sector sector: developing crises, with Government multiple external groups (e.g. “shocks” causing destabilisation NRMA) Electric vehicle (EV) market: Life Future Climate nascent/emerging field Australia (EV advocate) Australian An emerging Also a Caltex Australia Ltd biofuels in the broader Association of (leading biofuels ‘challenger’ industry liquid fuels sector. Australia retailer in Australia)
their own strategic planning or decision-making processes. The FFF provided participants with techno-economic modelling outputs that, together with qualitative insights from stakeholder dialogue, were drawn on “to articulate the major challenges for Australia in arriving at a secure and sustainable transport fuel mix to 2050” (CSIRO 2007). In June 2008, CSIRO released the main public report entitled Fuel for Thought (CSIRO 2008) and an associated modelling report. The scenarios contained in these reports explored different trajectories for international oil supplies (including near-term ‘peak oil’ events, where this occurred by 2013), climate policy, and alternative fuels. Below we explore this case to consider the utility of a field perspective to scenario planning. We use field theory “as a set of orienting concepts” (Fligstein & McAdam 2012b, p. 185). Considering the Future Fuels Forum through the lens of field theory Process context: Field states and the broader field environment As noted in section 3 various social orders can be conceptualised as SAFs including markets, industry sectors, policy domains, and formal organisations (e.g. firms and government organisations). In this respect, all FFF participants can be analysed as SAFs. Here, we focus on a limited number of SAFs (see Table 1): the convenor (i.e. the Flagship), CSIRO, private sector organisations who participated in the FFF, and associated economic fields. Table 1: Field states (at the time of the Future Fuels Forum) and key participants Fields(s) Field state Key forum participant(s) Related forum participants Flagship and CSIRO Flagship: still stabilising (emerging); needed to stabilise internal relations and secure external partnerships. staff Potential Flagship clients from industry (E.g. GM Holden) and government agencies Government agencies CSIRO: seeking to stabilise the field ‘resettlement’ and improved government relations None Australian automotive sector vehicle market and local automotive manufacturing sector: developing crises, with multiple external “shocks” causing destabilisation Holden Victorian Government Australian Government groups (e.g. NRMA) Electric vehicle (EV) market: nascent/emerging field Life Future Climate Australia (EV advocate) Australian biofuels industry An emerging Also a ‘challenger’ in the broader liquid fuels sector. Association of Australia Caltex Australia Ltd (leading biofuels retailer in Australia)