Foresight

Regina Gattringer and Matthias Wenzel

Chapter 4.16 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 423-425 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Foresight is a central part of contemporary strategy-making and other organisational activities that is vastly under-researched in management and organisation studies. It refers to a process through which organisational actors engage with possible futures. Depending on the focus, various topics such as corporate strategies (strategic foresight, corporate foresight), technologies (technology foresight) or entire sectors (industry foresight) are addressed through this process. While foresight is a specific process that structures activities that are aimed at engaging with possible futures in particular, future-making refers to all kinds of ways through which organisational actors produce and enact any type of yet-to-come, including possible, credible, sustainable and desirable ones, as well as others.

Keywords: Foresight; Future-making; Possible Futures; Scenarios; Dynamic environments; Open Foresight; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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