A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness

European Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 613-625

  Sarpong, David ^a   Maclean, Mairi ^b   Davies, Clayton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(In)congruence of values; Organising architecture; Organizational foresight; Product innovation teams; Social co ordination; Social practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887816527     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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