A structuration approach to scenario praxis

Brad MacKay and Paul Tambeau

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2013, vol. 80, issue 4, 673-686

Abstract: Scenario planning has become a widely used approach for making sense of complexity and uncertainty in turbulent organizational environments. While its early development is rooted primarily in the practitioner world, more recently scholars have been directing attention to its theoretical and methodological presuppositions as they seek to establish rigorous epistemological and ontological axioms that can further advance these methods. In this article we seek to contribute to this lively area of scholarly activity by demonstrating how structuration theory can inform scenario planning by offering a set of concepts that can be used to consistently and systematically analyse future uncertainties within a flexible sociological framework. Structuration theory posits that social systems are reflexively structured through actor–structure interactions over time.

Keywords: Giddens; Healthcare; Intuitive logics; Praxis; Scenario planning; Structuration theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.06.003

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