Zum Umgang mit Zukunft in Organisationen: eine praxistheoretische Perspektive

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The insight that the future is unknowable due to its contingency has destabilized planning actions as an allegedly safe form of handling the future. Nevertheless, this insight and the following search for functional equivalents to planning actions in corporate management has not led to rethinking and examining how organizations handle the future beyond a planning-based understanding. The present paper proposes a practice-theoretical perspective for the analysis of how organizations handle the future. For this purpose, the paper outlines the analytic challenges of a future-based research agenda and brings the practice-based approach into position. A practice perspective especially holds promising potentials because of its attention to the multifaceted, relationally bundled, and situated praxis through which the future is performatively generated and processed. By that, it provides an essential contribution to extending our understanding of handling the future as being more than a planning problem and sets new impulses for further developing theories of corporate management.
Translated title of the contributionOn handling the future in organizations: a practice perspective
Original languageGerman
JournalManagementforschung
Volume26
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)161-184
Number of pages24
ISSN2366-6129
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10.2016
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Management studies - Management process, Planning, Practice theory, time, future/futures