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Title Managing the future : foresight in the knowledge economy / edited by Haridimos Tsoukas and Jill Shepherd
Published Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2004

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Description xiv, 226 pages ;c25 cm
Series Tsoukas, Haridimos
Shepherd, Jill, 1965-
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Foreword: Foresight Matters by Spyros Makridakis -- Introduction: Organizations and the future, from forecasting to foresight -- Haridimos Tsoukas and Jill Shepherd -- Part I: Making Sense of Organizational Foresight -- Re-educating attention: What is foresight and how is it cultivated? -- Robert Chia -- Invention and navigation as contrasting metaphors of the pathways to the future -- V.K. Narayan and Liam Fahey -- Strategy and time: Really recognizing the future -- T.K. Das -- Part II: Foresight and Organizational Learning -- Foresight or foreseeing? A social action explanation of complex collective knowing -- David R. Schwandt and Margaret Gorman -- Retrospective Sensemaking and Foresight: Studying the Past to Prepare for the Future -- Raanan Lipshitz, Neta Ron & Micha Popper -- Can illusion of control destroy a firm's competence? The case of forecasting ability -- Rudolph Durand -- Part III: Developing Foresightful Organizations -- Time Travelling: Organizational Foresight as Temporal Reflexivity -- Miguel Pina E. Cunha -- The concept of "weak signals" revisited: A re-description from a constructivist perspective -- David Seidl -- Meta-rules for entrepreneurial foresight -- Ted Fuller -- Autopoietic limitations of probing the future -- Deborah Blackman and Steven Henderson -- Afterword: Insights into foresight -- Kees van der Heijden
Notes "includes Forward by Spyros Makridakis and Afterword by Kees van der Heijden" -- cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Business forecasting.
Strategic planning.
Organizational learning.
Intellectual capital.
Organizational change.
Knowledge management.
Author Tsoukas, Haridimos.
Shepherd, Jill, 1965-
LC no. 2003016912
ISBN 1405116145 hardcover alkaline paper
1405116153 paperback alkaline paper