The value contribution of strategic foresight: Insights from an empirical study of large European companies

Rohrbeck, René; Schwarz, Jan Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2013.01.004

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“…This could be deliberate as corporate foresight can potentially contribute to many areas, ranging from risk management, corporate development, and innovation management, to strategic management [20,21]. Thus, it makes sense that authors refer to the common denominator that corporate foresight contributes to organizational decision-making.…”

Section: Defining Corporate Foresightmentioning

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Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition

Rohrbeck

Battistella

Huizingh

2015

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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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. We define corporate foresight as a practice that permits an organization to lay the foundation for a future competitive advantage. Historically we distinguish and discuss four main phases 1) birth of the field (1950s), 2) the age of scenarios (1960s-1970s)

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Section: Defining Corporate Foresightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition

Rohrbeck

Battistella

Huizingh

2015

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…Those that do not report direct causal link often identify flexible organisational outcomes such as ambidexterity, peripheral visioning, second-order learning (See for e.g. Paliokaitė and Pačėsa 2015;Rohrbeck and Schwarz 2013;Sarpong and Maclean 2014). These derived outcomes have strategic implications for creation and capture of sustainable value for competitiveness.…”

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Special issue on ‘corporate foresight and innovation management’

Sarpong

Meissner

2018

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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“…The confirmation of the benefits mentioned above is in the empirical research carried out by Rohrbeck and Schwartz [17] in 77 enterprises. The authors, basing their research on organizational models describing the enterprise as an interpretative system [18], prove that the formalized process of foresight increases the ability of the following:…”

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Assessing the maturity level of foresight in Polish companies—a regional perspective

Kononiuk

Sacio-Szymańska

2015

Eur J Futures Res

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In the face of accelerated change and genuine uncertainties in the business environment as well as the need of processing and interpreting the information coming from majority of sources, foresight research in the enterprises comes into prominence. The main aim of the article is to assess foresight maturity of companies based in Podlaskie province in Poland as one of the least developed regions in Europe. The survey research is preceded by bibliometric analysis and literature review to examine current tendencies in foresight research in organisations. The conclusions drawn from the analysis of the existing works on organizational foresight are that foresight is no longer referred to only as a portfolio of methodologies through which organizations may garner a broader vision and probe the future to ascertain potential competitive landscapes but also as a human or organisational competence. Therefore, the research is based on a foresight maturity model developed by Grim (J Futur Stud 13(4):69-80, 2009). The model, besides traditionally associated foresight components such as environmental scanning, takes into consideration such aspects as leadership, collective vision building, and planning. Pilot survey research carried out among 134 production and services enterprises based in the Podlaskie region has allowed us to state that the companies are characterised by low foresight maturity levels. Hence, based on a literature review, two management concepts are suggested as means to increase the level of foresight maturity in companies.

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The value contribution of strategic foresight: Insights from an empirical study of large European companies

Cited by 187 publications

References 69 publications

Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition

Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition

Special issue on ‘corporate foresight and innovation management’

Assessing the maturity level of foresight in Polish companies—a regional perspective

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