Future-making

Matthias Wenzel and Eva-Maria Spreitzer

Chapter 4.18 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 429-430 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: “Future-making” refers to both a burgeoning field of research in the area of time and temporality as well as a contemporary phenomenon, one that relates to ways of engaging with the later-than-now. Specifically, from a practice perspective, it refers to a set of practices through which actors produce and enact the future. Among others, such practices include planning for optimization and preparing for contingency, for example, through strategic foresight as predictive forms of future-making. Other forms may serve to explore and invite novelty in the present by “using the future” in more reflexive and, thus, transformative ways. Yet another set of future-making practices might be more mundane but no less significant. If “strategy” is indeed directed toward the future, it follows that strategic practices are essentially future-making practices. However, prior research on Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) has only begun to explore the future-making side of strategic practices.

Keywords: Future-making; Imagination; Anticipation; Foresight; Enactment; Temporality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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