TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizing strategic foresight
T2 - a contextual practice of 'way finding'
AU - Sarpong, David
AU - Maclean, Mairi
AU - Alexander, Elizabeth
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Strategic foresight as a derived outcome of corporate foresight exercises has led to the dominant discourse on strategic foresight as an episodic intervention encompassing a proliferation of organizational foresight methodologies. We argue that such an approach is flawed, consigning strategic foresight to a narrow function in a planning perspective. To move the field into more fertile pastures for research, we draw on the practice theoretical lens to provide an alternative viewpoint on strategic foresight as a bundle of everyday organizing practices. In keeping with the practice approach to strategic foresight, we delineate strategic foresight as a continuous and contextual practice of 'wayfinding', that manifest in everyday situated organizing. We offer an integrating framework that contributes to the ongoing discussions about alternative approaches to theorizing strategic foresight.
AB - Strategic foresight as a derived outcome of corporate foresight exercises has led to the dominant discourse on strategic foresight as an episodic intervention encompassing a proliferation of organizational foresight methodologies. We argue that such an approach is flawed, consigning strategic foresight to a narrow function in a planning perspective. To move the field into more fertile pastures for research, we draw on the practice theoretical lens to provide an alternative viewpoint on strategic foresight as a bundle of everyday organizing practices. In keeping with the practice approach to strategic foresight, we delineate strategic foresight as a continuous and contextual practice of 'wayfinding', that manifest in everyday situated organizing. We offer an integrating framework that contributes to the ongoing discussions about alternative approaches to theorizing strategic foresight.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887021203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001
U2 - 10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84887021203
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 53
SP - 33
EP - 41
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
ER -