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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.
Author(s): Sarpong D, Maclean M, Alexander E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Futures
Year: 2013
Volume: 53
Pages: 33-41
Online publication date: 19/09/2013
ISSN (print): 0016-3287
ISSN (electronic): 1873-6378
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001
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