Tsoukas / Shepherd Managing the Future

Foresight in the Knowledge Economy
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4239-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizationscan develop their ability to manage the future.
* * An exploration of the ways in which organizations can developtheir ability to manage the future.
* Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides ofthe Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholarsin the fields of strategy or organizational learning.
* Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight canbe conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it ispossible.
* The papers are prefaced by a foreword from Spyros Makridakisand an introduction from the editors.
* Helps to shape a new research agenda, and so will be ofinterest to academics, as well as to students andpractitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsoukas, Haridimos

Shepherd, Jill

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures.
Tables.
Notes on the Contributors.
Foreword: Foresight Matters (Spyros Makridakis).
1. Introduction: Organizations and The Future, From ForecastingTo Foresight (Haridimos Tsoukas And Jill Shepherd).
Part I: Making Sense Of Organizational Foresight.
2. Re-Educating Attention: What Is Foresight And How Is ItCultivated (Robert Chia).
3. Invention And Navigation As Contrasting Metaphors Of ThePathways To The Future (V.K. Narayan And Liam Fahey).
4. Strategy And Time: Really Recognizing The Future (T.K.Das).
Part II: Foresight And Organizational Learning.
5. Foresight Or Foreseeing? A Social Action Explanation OfComplex Collective Knowing (David R. Schwandt And MargaretGorman).
6. Retrospective Sensemaking And Foresight: Studying The Past ToPrepare For The Future (Raanan Lipshitz, Neta Ron & MichaPopper).
7. Can Illusion Of Control Destroy A Firm's Competence?The Case Of Forecasting Ability (Rudolph Durand).
Part III: Developing Foresightful Organizations.
8. Time Travelling: Organizational Foresight As TemporalReflexivity (Miguel Pina E. Cunha).
9. The Concept Of "Weak Signals" Revisited: A Re-DescriptionFrom A Constructivist Perspective (David Seidl).
10. Meta-Rules For Entrepreneurial Foresight (Ted Fuller, PaulArgyle and Paul Moran).
11. Autopoietic Limitations Of Probing The Future (DeborahBlackman And Steven Henderson).
Afterword: Insights Into Foresight (Kees van der Heijden).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Haridimos Tsoukas is the George D. Mavros Research Professorof Organization and Management at the Athens Laboratory of BusinessAdministration (ALBA), Greece and Professor of OrganizationStudies, Warwick Business School, UK. He has published widely inseveral leading academic journals, including the Academy ofManagement Review, Strategic Management Journal, OrganizationStudies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies,and Human Relations. He is the Editor-in-Chief ofOrganization Studies, serves on the Editorial Board ofseveral journals and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook ofOrganization Theory: Meta-theoretical Perspectives (OUP, 2003).
Jill Shepherd is Assistant Professor of Management at theFaculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, andco-organizer of the First International Conference onOrganizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Her researchinterests centre around the use of evolutionary theory,particularly a branch called memetics, to investigate knowledgecreation and innovation within corporates, high tech firms andclusters. Prior to becoming an academic, Jill worked in industryboth in an international corporate setting and in a'dot.com' and operated as an international managementconsultant for a number of years.