Unpacking strategic foresight: A practice approach

David Sarpong; Mairi Maclean

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2013.04.002

Unpacking strategic foresight: A practice approach

David Sarpong
, Mairi Maclean

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	16-26
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Management
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2013.04.002
Publication status	Published - Mar 2014

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