Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight by Laura Anna Costanzo (English)

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This important Handbook explores and evaluates dynamic environments and the appropriate strategic responses to them in the 21st century. Leading scholars in the field of strategic management are brought together to offer innovative and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the past, present and future of strategy formation and foresight.

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This important Handbook explores and evaluates dynamic environments and the appropriate strategic responses to them in the 21st century. Drawing together a collection of 29 original chapters, the Handbook makes an invaluable contribution to theory and practice by stimulating disciplined, rigorous and imaginative enquiry into the relationship between strategy and foresight. Leading scholars in the field of strategic management are brought together to offer innovative and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the past, present and future of strategy formation and foresight. In so doing, they challenge research in four key areas: strategy and foresight processes; strategy innovation for the future; understanding the future; and strategically responding to the future.The Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight is a comprehensive resource that will be invaluable for academics, students and practitioners interested in this important phenomenon.

Author Biography

Edited by Laura Anna Costanzo, Associate Professor, Strategy & Innovation, Director of the PhD Programmes and Director of the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton and Robert Bradley MacKay, Professor of Strategy, University of St Andrews, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:IntroductionRobert Bradley MacKay and Laura A. CostanzoPART I: PROBING THE FUTURE: CULTIVATING STRATEGIC FORESIGHT1. Redefining Strategic Foresight: 'Fast' and 'Far' Sight via Complexity ScienceBill McKelvey and Max Boisot2. Anticipating Critique and Occasional Reason: Modes of Reasoning in the Face of a Radically Open FutureDavid Seidl and Dominik van Aaken3. Strategic ForesightAjit Nayak4. The Symbolism of Foresight Processes in OrganizationsJan Oliver Schwarz5. Strategic Foresight: Counterfactual and Prospective Sensemaking in Enacted EnvironmentsRobert Bradley MacKay6. Modal Narratives, Possible Worlds and Strategic ForesightCharles Booth, Peter Clark, Agnès Delahaye-Dado, Stephen Procter and Michael Rowlinson7. Scenarios as Knowledge Transformed into Strategic 'Re-presentations': The Use of Foresight Studies to Help Shape and Implement StrategyThomas Durand8. Researching the Organization–Environment RelationshipGeorge BurtPART II: FORESIGHT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BECOMING: STRATEGY PROCESS, PRACTICE AND CHANGE9. Strategizing as Practising: Strategic Learning as a Source of ConnectionElena P. Antonacopoulou10. Improvisational Bricolage: A Practice-based Approach to Strategy and ForesightMiguel Pina e Cunha, João Vieira Da Cunha and Stewart R. Clegg11. Micro-political Strategies and Strategizing in Multinational Corporations: The Case of Subsidiary Mandate ChangeChristoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert12. How Organizational DNA WorksDavid Weir, Craig Marsh and Wilf Greenwood13. Making Sense of Organizational Becoming: The Need for Essential Stabilities in Organizational ChangeIan Colville14. Agency in Management of Change: Bringing in Relationality, Situatedness and ForesightAhu Tatli and Mustafa F. Özbilgin15. The Role of Resources in Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights for an Approach to Strategic Management that Combines Agency and InstitutionJulie Battilana and Bernard LecaPART III: SHAPING THE FUTURE: STRATEGIZING AND INNOVATION16. The Role of Middle Managers in Enabling ForesightLaura A. Costanza and Vicky Tzoumpa17. Hollow at the Top: (Re)claiming the Responsibilities of Leadership in StrategizingC. Marlene Fiol and Edward J. O'Connor18. Visions and Innovation StrategyJonathan Sapsed19. Innovation through Ambidexterity: How to Achieve the Ambidextrous OrganizationConstantinos Markides and Wenyi Chu20. Fast Cycle Capability: A Conceptual IntegrationV.K. Narayanan21. Interactions with Customers for InnovationC. Annique Un and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra22. Organizational Innovation of the Toyota GroupFaith HataniPART IV: RESPONDING TO THE FUTURE: INTUITION, INERTIA AND STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY23. The Role of Intuition in Strategic Decision MakingMarta Sinclair, Eugene Sadler-Smith and Gerard P. Hodgkinson24. (Un) Great Expectations: Effects of Underestimations and Self-perception on PerformanceRodolphe Durand25. Strategic Foresight and the Role of Organizational Memory Within a Punctuated Equilibrium FrameworkStelios C. Zyglidopoulos and Stephanie W.J.C. Schreven26. Adaptation, Inertia and the Flexible Organization: A Study of the Determinants of Organizational Flexibility in an Emerging EconomyAndrés Hatum and Andrew M. Pettigrew27. Addressing Path Dependency in the Capabilities Approach: Historicism and Foresight Meet on the 'Road Less Travelled'Swapnesh K. Masrani and Peter McKiernan28. Dynamic Knowledge CreationTaman H. Powell and Howard Thomas29. Foreseeing the Problem of Conformity in Strategy Teaching, Research and PracticeGregory B. VitIndex

Details ISBN184542963X ISBN-10 184542963X ISBN-13 9781845429638 Format Hardcover Author Robert Bradley MacKay Pages 576 Language English DEWEY 658.4012 Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2009-03-31 NZ Release Date 2009-03-31 UK Release Date 2009-03-31 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-03-31 Edited by Robert Bradley MacKay Audience Professional & Vocational Series Research Handbooks in Business and Management series We've got this

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