We apply a longitudinal research design in which we measure future preparedness in 2008 and its impact on firm performance in 2015.
This study method can act as an inspiration to similar foresight studies that aim to involve all the stakeholders, external experts and future drivers to anticipate futures visions that assist their organisation in decision-making and future preparedness.
To prevent further reductions in staff and for future preparedness, education programmes regarding nuclear disasters could be effective, since such programmes were found to minimize health care providers' fears and concerns about radiation [ 44].
Thus, our findings further reinforce the need to include perceived self-efficacy measures in PMT, other behavior motivation theories, and future preparedness motivation studies.
The results indicated future preparedness to be a powerful predictor for becoming an outperformer in the industry, for attaining superior profitability, and for gaining superior market capitalization growth.
This circumstance has potentially important implications for future preparedness planning.
The study points to issues that warrant attention in future prevention and preparedness efforts against AI.
The effects of El Niño should be taken into account in future epidemic forecasting for public health preparedness.
Furthermore, the effect of institution-wide training of clinical and non-clinical staff on disaster preparedness should be evaluated in future studies.
We hope that this method will be used in future studies and serve as a platform to expose existing idiosyncrasies and make climate change preparedness and response a unique challenge for each and every community.
