Exploring Markets

A Very Brief Introduction
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-032-05028-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 46 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 89 g

Organizations construct their environments themselves. From the bewildering, chaotic array of impressions, they take those bits of information that enable them to produce such a view of the environment – one that makes it possible for them to operate in the environment with relative confidence. Thus, contrary to what traditional market research suggests, organizations do not respond objectively to existing environmental conditions, but invent, construct and create their realities themselves.The goal of exploring the environment –or, more specifically, exploring markets – is to influence this construction process through re-framing, de-generalization and hypothesis formation and thus to allow organizations to discover unusual things.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kühl, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Observing the Environment.- Chapter 2. Beyond the Objectivist View—the Cognitive Turn.- Chapter 3. Approaches to Exploration. Chapter 4. Options for Constructing Reality—Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Kühl is professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and works as a consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles and Zurich. He studied sociology and history at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA), Université Paris-X-Nanterre (France) and the University of Oxford (UK).