Design thinking has the potential to improve problem definition and mechanism design in
policymaking processes. By promoting greater understanding of how citizens experience …

The goal of this introductory article to the Special Issue on Corporate Foresight is to provide
an overview of the state of the art, major challenges and to identify development trajectories …

Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach was first published in 1984 as a part of the
Pitman series in Business and Public Policy. Its publication proved to be a landmark moment …

This paper answers the question,“Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty
and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in …

A comparative model of organizations as interpretation systems is proposed. The model
describes four interpretation modes: enacting, discovering, undirected viewing, and …

Chief executives in 50 manufacturing companies were interviewed about the perceived
strategic uncertainty in six environmental sectors, and the frequency and mode of scanning …

The intelligent organization is one that is skilled at marshaling its information resources and
capabilities, transforming information into knowledge, and using this knowledge to sustain …

Managers use mental models of markets to simplify and impose order on complex and
ambiguous competitive environments and isolate points of competitive advantage or …

Acknowledgements lowe much more than I can ever say to Bill Starbuck and the late Jerome
Nesa, but there comes a time when everything which has been happily kept tacit has to be …

This study examined the relationship between perceptions of strategic uncertainty and
environmental scanning behaviors. It has been postulated that the strength of this …