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Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation
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This paper addresses the need for reliable action guidelines that can be used by organisations in turbulent environments and suggests an analytical approach for the management of surprising and potentially damaging events using the wild card management system.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 2004-03-01. It has received 236 citations till now.read more
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Towards a theory of decoupling: degrees of decoupling in the EU and the case of road traffic in Finland between 1970 and 2001
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical framework for decoupling, defining the difference between decouplings, coupling and negative decoupled, and further break down to weak, strong and expansive/recessive degrees of decouples, laying emphasis on the absolute increase or decrease of the variables.
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How dynamic can organizational capabilities be? Towards a dual-process model of capability dynamization
TL;DR: The last section of this paper aims to develop an alternative approach, which aims at preserving the original merits of organizational capability and solving the rigidity issue not by integrating a dynamic dimension into the capability construct but rather by establishing a separate function (‘capability monitoring’).
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Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change
TL;DR: This paper argues that decision theory, thresholds, scenarios and resilience thinking can expand awareness of the potential states and outcomes, as well as of the probabilities and consequences of outcomes under alternative decisions, for global change issues.
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Monitoring the future. Building an early warning system for the Dutch Ministry of Justice
TL;DR: In this paper, an early warning system (EWS) is used to monitor various developments and to place them within the perspective of future scenarios, without actually predicting the future, this makes it possible to determine which scenario is the most relevant at any given moment.
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The future shocks: On discontinuity and scenario development
TL;DR: Investigation of how discontinuity is addressed in futures literature, particularly those sources that focus on scenarios, and how the concept is used in scenario practice exposes a rather ambiguous approach to discontinuity in current scenario practice.
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Sensemaking in organizations
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Corporate culture, customer orientation, and innovativeness in Japanese firms : a quadrad analysis
TL;DR: The authors conducted double dyads interviews with marketing executives at a Japanese vendor firm and a pair of purchasing executives from a Japanese customer firm, each conducted with a double dyad pair of interviews.