Haridimos Tsoukas & Jill Shepherd 
Managing the Future [PDF ebook] 
Foresight in the Knowledge Economy

In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizations
can develop their ability to manage the future.

* * An exploration of the ways in which organizations can develop
their ability to manage the future.

* Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides of
the Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholars
in the fields of strategy or organizational learning.

* Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight can
be conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it is
possible.

* The papers are prefaced by a foreword from Spyros Makridakis
and an introduction from the editors.

* Helps to shape a new research agenda, and so will be of
interest to academics, as well as to students and
practitioners.

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Notes on the Contributors.

Foreword: Foresight Matters (Spyros Makridakis).

1. Introduction: Organizations and The Future, From Forecasting
To Foresight (Haridimos Tsoukas And Jill Shepherd).

Part I: Making Sense Of Organizational Foresight.

2. Re-Educating Attention: What Is Foresight And How Is It
Cultivated (Robert Chia).

3. Invention And Navigation As Contrasting Metaphors Of The
Pathways 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 Of
Complex Collective Knowing (David R. Schwandt And Margaret
Gorman).

6. Retrospective Sensemaking And Foresight: Studying The Past To
Prepare For The Future (Raanan Lipshitz, Neta Ron & Micha
Popper).

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 Temporal
Reflexivity (Miguel Pina E. Cunha).

9. The Concept Of ‘Weak Signals’ Revisited: A Re-Description
From A Constructivist Perspective (David Seidl).

10. Meta-Rules For Entrepreneurial Foresight (Ted Fuller, Paul
Argyle and Paul Moran).

11. Autopoietic Limitations Of Probing The Future (Deborah
Blackman And Steven Henderson).

Afterword: Insights Into Foresight (Kees van der Heijden).

Index

关于作者

Haridimos Tsoukas is the George D. Mavros Research Professor
of Organization and Management at the Athens Laboratory of Business
Administration (ALBA), Greece and Professor of Organization
Studies, Warwick Business School, UK. He has published widely in
several leading academic journals, including the Academy of
Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization
Studies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies,
and Human Relations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of
Organization Studies, serves on the Editorial Board of
several journals and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of
Organization Theory: Meta-theoretical Perspectives (OUP, 2003).

Jill Shepherd is Assistant Professor of Management at the
Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, and
co-organizer of the First International Conference on
Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Her research
interests centre around the use of evolutionary theory,
particularly a branch called memetics, to investigate knowledge
creation and innovation within corporates, high tech firms and
clusters. Prior to becoming an academic, Jill worked in industry
both in an international corporate setting and in a
‘dot.com’ and operated as an international management
consultant for a number of years.