In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future.An exploration of the ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future. Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholars in the fields of strategy or organizational learning. Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight can be conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it is possible. The papers are prefaced by a foreword from Spyros Makridakis and an introduction from the editors. Helps to shape a new research agenda, and so will be of interest to academics, as well as to students and practitioners.
Author(s): Haridimos Tsoukas, Jill Shepherd
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
Managing the Future......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Figures......Page 7
Tables......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
Foreword: Foresight Matters......Page 13
1 Introduction: Organizations and the Future, From Forecasting to......Page 15
2 Re-educating Attention: What is Foresight and How is it......Page 35
3 Invention and Navigation as Contrasting Metaphors of the......Page 52
4 Strategy and Time: Really Recognizing the Future......Page 72
5 Foresight or Foreseeing? A Social Action Explanation of Complex......Page 91
6 Retrospective Sensemaking and Foresight: Studying the Past to......Page 112
7 Can Illusion of Control Destroy a Firm’s Competence? The Case of......Page 123
8 Time Traveling: Organizational Foresight as Temporal Reflexivity......Page 147
9 The Concept of ‘‘Weak Signals’’ Revisited: A Re-description......Page 165
10 Meta-rules for Entrepreneurial Foresight......Page 183
11 Autopoietic Limitations of Probing the Future......Page 201
Afterword: Insights into Foresight......Page 218
Index......Page 226
