Sub-theme 44: Making Sense of Uncertain Futures -> HYBRID sub-theme!
Convenors:
Elena Dalpiaz, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Emma Sandström, Aalto University, Finland
Henri Schildt, Aalto University, Finland
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P-1-05
P. Devereaux Jennings
Using climate-related imaginaries to generate more radical organization theory: A cultural narrative approach, assisted by
AI
Discussant(s): Damm
Fabio Damm and Sebastian Raetze
Mapping the future in sensemaking-studies: An integrative review
Discussant(s): Garsten
Christina Garsten and Ulrik Jennische
The future as an empty promise: Anticipatory training and prospective sensemaking in transnational organizations
Discussant(s): Jennings
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P-1-05
Andrea Geissinger, Rasmus Nykvist and Christina Öberg
Managers, minds, and machines: Bridging predictive processing and prospective sensegiving
Discussant(s): Liu
Na Liu, Sophie De Winne, Nicky Dries and Marjan De Coster
Decoding organizational control in standard work environments: Sensemaking amid algorithmic management
Discussant(s): Näslund
Elinor Särner and Anna Yström
Utilizing AI in prospective sensemaking for desired futures: Outlining near- and distant-future sensemaking of complex system
development
Discussant(s): Geissinger
Lovisa Näslund and Adrienne Sörbom
A place that makes the future: Sensemaking efforts to accelerate the implementation of artificial intelligence in the Swedish
public sector
Discussant(s): Särner
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: - Room: U6-P-1-05
Valentin S. Rottensteiner
Between experimentation and imagined futures: How the semiconductor industry tries to make sense of uncertainty in times of
frequent disruption
Discussant(s): Masih
Silvia Sanasi, Emanuela Rondi and Alfredo De Massis
Tracing a trajectory for the future: Mediated boundary work in long-established organizations
Discussant(s): Holopainen
Alisha Masih
Using innovation narratives to generate frame flexibility in response to disruption
Discussant(s): Sanasi
Mari Holopainen
Strategy discourse in the public sector: Visions of future in political strategy debates
Discussant(s): Rottensteiner
Parallel Stream B: - Room: U6-P1-39
Jakob Kühler
Narratives of digital change: Managerial sensemaking in public sector organizations under uncertainty
Discussant(s): Ouweland
Thomas A. Bejarano
Sensemaking
and sensegiving: An exploration into a cluster facilitators network building
efforts
Discussant(s): Jiang
Chantal van den Ouweland and Siri Boe-Lillegraven
Learning within project boundaries: How project design and the affordance of sense shapes the process and outcomes of multi-stakeholder
innovation
Discussant(s): Bejarano
Xianxian Jiang, Joe Carter and Paul Van Opdenbosch
Innovation as future-oriented sensemaking through epistemic things: An autoethnographic study in a healthcare innovation ecosystem
Discussant(s): Kühler
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: - Room: U6-P-1-05
Lena J. Jaspersen, Sanaz Sigaroudi and Sarah Holland
Collective sense-making in categorization processes: The role of heuristics and routines in tackling uncertainty
Discussant(s): Cochis
Carlotta Cochis and Paula Ungureanu
Navigating the future: Media's role in the sensemaking of blockchain technology
Discussant(s): Xu
Joseph M. Makokha
From uncertainty to ambiguity: Creating the future in new venture teams
Discussant(s): Jaspersen
Ruowen Xu, Alex Preda and Zining Wang
Match made in heaven: How venture capital values the future
Discussant(s): Makokha
Parallel Stream B: - Room: U6-P1-39
Angela Graf and Anna Kiemer
The role of organizational identity for the sensemaking of digital transformation – Insights from an engineering-company
Discussant(s): Schlömer
Bronwen Deacon, Freia Kuper, Melissa Laufer, Marvin Sievering and Len Ole Schäfer
Sensemaking and the future university: Exploring the role digitalization strategies play for university teachers’ engagement
with EdTech
Discussant(s): Graf
Inti José Lammi, Chris J. Ivory, Rachael Tripney Berglund, Anette Hallin, Gisela Bäcklander and Kenneth Guevarra Santos
Making sense of technological future(s) – The case of Nordic Finance & AI
Discussant(s): Deacon
Nina Schlömer and Laura von Welczeck
Making sense of digital futures: Digital transformation in Germany’s public health sector
Discussant(s): Lammi
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: - Room: U6-P-1-05
Haider Haider
Examining wargames: Strategy tools for making sense of the future
Discussant(s): Rocchi
Sara Rocchi
Organizations in turbulent times: Types of uncertainty and decision-making dynamics
Discussant(s): Ryf
Stephan Ryf and Ann-Kristin Weiser
Agentic orientations in future-oriented sensemaking: The effects of pragmatic versus idealistic considerations in making sense
of an uncertain future
Discussant(s): Gobena
Elina Gobena
Making sensing: How constrained future-anticipation shapes the sensing of opportunities
Discussant(s): Haider
Parallel Stream B: - Room: U6-P1-39
Maria Rucsandra Stan, Francesca Di Pietro and Francesca Capo
More than words: How language shapes sense-making processes and drives teams' decision-making
Discussant(s): Rosales
Lukas Zumbrunn and Ali Guenduez
Understanding the role of experts in foresight reports
Discussant(s): Stan
Fritz J. Winter
Extrospective sensemaking in reciprocal understanding
Discussant(s): Zumbrunn
Virginia Rosales and Nathalie Gaucher
Adapting sociomaterial practices for crisis management: The role of artifacts in joint sensemaking during COVID-19
Discussant(s): Winter
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: - Room: U6-P-1-05
Racheal E. Govender, Svetlana N. Khapova and Konstantin Korotov
A coach’s perspective: How can coaching create sensemaking?
Discussant(s): Jain
Mayra Ruiz-Castro and Deborah Brewis
Making sense of individual and couple identity in times of crisis
Discussant(s): Govender
Ankur Jain, Anupama Kondayya and Asha Sivashankar
Temporal and spatial ambidexterity: How uncertainty aids leader development
Discussant(s): Ruiz-Castro
Parallel Stream B: - Room: U6-P1-39
Grégory Jemine
New ways of working projects under uncertainty: The challenges of sensegiving strategies and sensemaking work
Discussant(s): Zobel
Eleonora Grassi, Federica Bandini, Laura Toschi and Cristina Boari
Not only about the future: The role of temporal work in crafting alternatives
Discussant(s): Jemine
Magnus Mähring, Anna Fahlgård-Lahache and Eleunthia Ellinger
Making sense of competing identity work patterns: The case of spatio-temporal sensemaking in a nascent public agency
Discussant(s): Grassi
Ann-Kristin Zobel and Lukas Falcke
Making sense of and giving sense to interorganizational collaboration: A temporal perspective on identification and cooperative
behavior
Discussant(s): Mähring
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P-1-05
Angelika Zimmermann
Values, emotions, and feelings of agency about the future – The formative function of interactive workshops
Discussant(s): Devenin
Shimpei Miyagawa and Thijs Willems
Sensemaking a post-anthropocentric view of entrepreneurship: ‘Ecological resonance’ as wayfinding into the emerging terroir
of Japanese wine industry
Discussant(s): Zimmerman
Romain Eymann
The role of external actors in the human rights policy of a multinational enterprise: A sensemaking approach
Discussant(s): Miyagawa
Verónica Devenin, Maja Tampe and Valentina De Marchi
Making sense of regenerative business throughout the value network
Discussant(s): Eymann
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P-1-05
Elizabeth King, Layla Branicki, Richard Badham and Kate Norbury
Collective mindfulness in uncertain seas: Prospective sensemaking in elite yacht
Discussant(s): Jahani
Mina Jahani
Role of emotional energy in future-oriented collective sensemaking
Discussant(s): King