Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures
Journal of Management Studies,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 29, 2025
Abstract
In
their
Point
,
Wenzel,
Cabantous,
and
Koch
set
out
how
future
making
encompasses
a
broad
range
of
future‐oriented
practices,
including
but
not
limited
to
planning,
foresight,
agile,
design‐driven
approaches.
this
Counterpoint
we
contest
that
viewing
as
any
practice
may
also
encompass
unsuitable
detrimental
blur
the
concept
point
hindering,
rather
than
sustaining
efforts
at
theorizing
making.
Adopting
Pragmatist
perspective,
suggest
an
emancipatory
inquiry
aimed
imagining
reifying
desirable
futures,
is,
collective,
value‐based
judgements
what
might
should
be.
This
entails
reflective
conversation
with
social
material
world,
whereby
concerned
actors
collectively
deliberate,
based
on
values,
futures
are
–
for
themselves,
generations,
natural
environment.
advancing
view,
reject
Wright's
management
fad
ignores
long‐standing
research
scenario
instead,
argue
depart
from
managerialism
planning.
The
main
contribution
our
is
theoretical
perspective
understanding
can
be
crafted
in
practice.
Language: Английский
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?
Journal of Management Studies,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 9, 2025
Abstract
Future
making,
the
work
of
enacting
yet‐to‐come
by
making
sense
and
giving
form
to
imaginings
future,
has
become
topical
in
management
studies
lately.
Triggered
pressing
societal
challenges
like
climate
change,
inequality
threatened
democratic
institutions
vis‐à‐vis
a
‘crisis
mode’,
scholars
have
started
engage
with
future
as
an
open‐ended
temporal
category,
both
object
analysis
happening
around
organizations,
well
way
scholarly
inquiry.
This
Point‐Counterpoint
debate
about
research
comes
right
on
time,
future‐making
seems
be
at
crossroads,
potentially
heading
bright
–
or
not
so
future.
The
contributions
this
collectively
ask:
What
is
research,
they
could
more
different
pathways
envisage.
Language: Английский