Relational pluralism: Organizational foresight in practice

Sarpong, David; O'Regan, Nicholas; Ghobadian, Abby; MacLean, Mairi

Abstract

We examined how the organizing practices and social relationships of lower participants may influence strategic foresight. We then suggest relational incumbency as a transient conceptual framework to specify how the organizing social relationships and interactions of lower level employees, may encourage the enactment of intelligent 'foresightful' actions.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: Academy of Management 2013 Annual Meeting, AOM 2013
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Journal: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
• Print ISSN: 0065-0668
• Electronic ISSN: 2151-6561
• Publisher: Academy of Management
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 584-589
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2013.48
• Keywords: strategic foresight, relationalism, relational incumbency, organizing social relationships
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/936324
• Publisher URL: http://proceedings.aom.org/content/2013/1/12687.abstract?sid=21071cb7-c6c8-43c9-8fb0-ff8e859b9df2
• Related Public URLs: http://aom.org/proceedings/; http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2013.48abstract