Introduction

managing the future—foundations and perspectives

Matthias Wenzel, Hannes Kramer

1-21

From defuturization to futurization and back again?

a system-theoretical perspective to analyse decision-making

VICTORIA von Groddeck

25-43

What's new?

temporality in practice theory and pragmatism

Anders Buch, Iben Sandal Stjerne

45-65

Creativity in/of organizations for managing things to come

lessons to be learnt from philosophy

Günther Ortmann, Jörg Sydow

67-88

Organizational futurity

being and knowing in the engagement with what is yet to come

Seelan Naidoo

89-110

Open(ing up) for the future

practising open strategy and open innovation to cope with uncertainty

Maximilian Heimstädt, Georg Reischauer

113-131

Antenarratives in ongoing strategic change

using the story index to capture daunting and optimistic futures

Tommi P. Auvinen, Pasi Sajasalo, Teppo Sintonen, Tuomo Takala, Marko Järvenpää

133-151

What scenarios are you missing?

poststructuralism for deconstructing and reconstructing organizational futures

Ricarda Scheele, Norman M. Kearney, Jude H. Kurniawan, Vanessa J. Schweizer

153-172

Historical methods and the study of how organizations manage the future

Yves Plourde

173-189

In the wake of disaster

resilient organizing and a new path for the future

A. Erin Bass, Ivana Milosevic

193-214

The darkened horizon

two modes of organizing pandemics

Matthias Leanza

215-230

Managing the digital transformation

preparing cities for the future

Markus Kowalski, Anja Danner-Schröder, Gordon Müller-Seitz

231-251

Creating collective futures

how roadmaps and conferences reconfigure the institutional field of semiconductor manufacturing

Uli Meyer, Cornelius Schubert, Arnold Windeler

253-276

Organizational artifacts as pre-presentations of things to come

the case of menu development in haute cuisine

Jochen Koch

277-298

Solid futures

office architecture and the labour imaginary

David Adler

299-319