Unpacking strategic foresight: A practice approach

David Sarpong and Mairi Maclean

Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2014, vol. 30, issue 1, 16-26

Abstract: This paper unpacks strategic foresight by exploring the creative evaluation and reconfiguration of sources of potentialities into resources and productive outcomes. Placing emphasis on the everyday practices of organizational members’ positioned lower down the organizational hierarchy, we identified prospective sensemaking, multi-lateral conversations about future possibilities and limits in the present, and the application of future-related techniques and methodologies as embedded organizing practices that gave form to the patterns of ‘foresightful’ actions observed in practice.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2013.04.002

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