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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction: Managing the Future—Foundations and Perspectives

Authors : Matthias Wenzel, Hannes Krämer

Published in: How Organizations Manage the Future

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Abstract

The aim of this short chapter is to foster a research agenda to examine how organizations manage the future. To this end, we elaborate on the relevance of such an agenda and synthesize existing perspectives on managing the future, which mostly trivialize this phenomenon either by reducing it to a planning problem or by considering it as a universal aspect of organizing. Building on an overview of the chapters that are included in this edited collection, we propose a research agenda that directly addresses the manifold activities and practices through which organizational actors manage the future.

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The following overview is not intended to be a full-blown review of future-related organization research. Rather, we provide illustrative examples for a synthesis of general trends in this literature.
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction: Managing the Future—Foundations and Perspectives
Authors
Matthias Wenzel
Hannes Krämer
Copyright Year
2018
Book
How Organizations Manage the Future

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-74505-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-74506-0

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74506-0_1