Sub-theme 10: [SWG] Prospective Theorizing: Developing Theories That Perform Desirable Futures
Convenors:
Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain
Emilio Marti, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Juliane Reinecke, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-Amphitheater
Opening Session
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro, Emilio Marti, Juliane Reinecke
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Performativity and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-Amphitheater
Chair: Emilio Marti
Qi Liu and Dequn Teng
Future making through the performativity of connected digital twins
Fredrik Lavén, Sandra Samuelsson and Alexander Styhre
The value of promissory claims and an anticipatory logic in shaping the future
Radek Oros
Theorizing desirable career futures: Systematic review of life design interventions
Parallel Stream B: AI and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 623
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro
Sonja Koehne, Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Georg von Richthofen and Hendrik Send
Reshaping the future of work: How workers navigate the potentiality of artificial intelligence
Larissa Gebken, Lisa Pfeiffer and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Between utopia and dystopia – Co-creating shared sustainable futures with AI
Truls Erikson, Glenn Kristiansen and Kristin Undheim
Unpacking the construction of futures through graphing the grammar of exemplar projects in regulatory AI sandboxes
Parallel Stream C: Ecological Boundaries and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 624
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Fabrice L. Cavarretta
Wishing for shift ? A paradigm analysis of ecological transition
Shubha Patvardhan, Rajyalakshmi Kunapuli and Devanshi Agarwal
Ecology of strategic imagination: Extending evolutionary theory and advancing prospective theorizing
Ankita Nayak, Oana Branzei and Laura Albareda
Transforming property rights by assetizing biowaste liabilities
Session III: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Markets and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-Amphitheater
Chair: Emilio Marti
Cristian Trejos Taborda
Mainstreaming moral markets: Prospective theorizing of the dynamics of (in)consistency between category positioning and expectations
Elisa Fiore, Elena Giovannoni and Cristiano Busco
Navigating the tension between desirability and plausibility: Accounting for imagining future(s)
Federica Massa-Saluzzo and Verónica Devenin
Making sense of regeneration to foster sustainability transition at an industry level. The case of regenerative fashion
Parallel Stream B: Questioning and Rethinking Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 623
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro
Donncha Kavanagh
What if theorizing is deprecated in our desirable future?
Fabian Fluche
Imagined futures based on a heuristic concept of pre-caution
Tony Passino
One useful approach to future research on grand challenges
Parallel Stream C: Narratives and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 624
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Ilaria Durante, Claudio Dell'Era, Stefano Magistretti and Juliane Reinecke
From organizational to cross-sectoral narratives for desirable future-making: The role of boundary objects
Na Liu, Marjan De Coster, Nicky Dries and Sophie De Winne
Rage against the machine: Prospective sensemaking amid algorithmic technologies
Federica Fusaro, Chaïma Benzekri and Thomas Gauthier
Talking more resilient futures into existence – Evidence from a site of hyper-projectivity
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Managers and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-Amphitheater
Chair: Emilio Marti
Clarissa R.M. Schott, Katarina Kaarbøe, Dan-Richard Knudsen and Martin Kornberger
Whose future? The construction, contestation, and (re)calibration of Net-Zero 2050
Laura Kirsch, Vera Blazevic, Stephan Hankammer and Frank Thomas Piller
You´ll get what you hope for or fake it till you make it? A cognitive practice view of how managers navigate complexity within
desirable future making
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Please note: the first 30 minutes are for the whole sub-theme in the Pierce-Amphitheater.
Please note: the first 30 minutes are for the whole sub-theme in the Pierce-Amphitheater.
Parallel Stream B: Circularity and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 623
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro
Miriam Feuls and Juliane Reinecke
Theorizing multiple desirable futures: Circular versus linear trajectories in a pharmaceutical company
Cristóbal García-Herrera, Erkko Autio and Mike Pinder
Accelerating
desirable futures: The case of World Economic Forum’s Scale 360° for circular
economy innovation
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Please note: the first 30 minutes are for the whole sub-theme in the Pierce-Amphitheater.
Please note: the first 30 minutes are for the whole sub-theme in the Pierce-Amphitheater.
Parallel Stream C: Fiction and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 624
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Anna Beatriz Niterói and Bruno R. Leandro
Imagining beyond the apocalypse: Utopia in speculative fiction as a lens for studying future expectations
Max Bogaert, Nicky Dries and Joost Luyckx
Sci-Fi and the future of work: From inevitability to resistance
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Please note: the first 30 minutes are for the whole sub-theme in the Pierce-Amphitheater.
Please note: the first 30 minutes are for the whole sub-theme in the Pierce-Amphitheater.
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Institutions and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-Amphitheater
Chair: Emilio
Nico Florian Klenner and M. Tina Dacin
Prospective custodianship: Making futures worth preserving
Lin Dong, Chuqiao Zhou and Milo Shaoqing Wang
Phoenix rising from Its own ashes: The role of hope in shaping positive social change
Parallel Stream B: Entrepreneurship and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 623
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro
Thuvarakai Kandasamy
Firefighting, futuring, and everything in between: A practice-theoretical study of organisational resilience in SMEs
Vehap Kola, Elona Marku and Maria Chiara Di Guardo
Prospective pendulum – Entrepreneurs' and VCs' prospection of desirable solutions to grand challenges
Kiia Strömmer and Jarrod Ormiston
Future imaginaries as motivations – Prospective theorising of entrepreneurial action
Parallel Stream C: Temporality and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 624
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Donal Crilly and Quy N. Huy
Framing shared futures in polarized settings: An emotional-temporal lens on the Northern Ireland peace processes
Oliver Hirschfelder, Carina Keller and Patricia H. Hein
“It’s a waiting game”: How organizations address the distant future of a decarbonized world
Dicle Kortantamer, Joana Geraldi and Tor Hernes
How are imagined futures made? A Spencer-Brown view on a firm’s attempt to prevent the next global financial crisis
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Design and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 623
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro
Jacqueline Fendt
Design thinking as a methodology for prospective theorizing: Creating desirable futures through pragmatic and abductive inquiry
Katie Pfeiffer, Onyaglanu Idoko, Tuukka Toivonen and Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
“Becoming regenerative” and the challenge of planning for value-led research on transformative futures
Paula Wuth, Ignacio Pavez and Sebastian Negrete
Unveiling the role of design in co-creating desirable futures in organisations
Parallel Stream B: Sustainability and Desirable Futures - Room: Pierce-PC 624
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Adrián Pablo Zicari
A barricade in Patagonia: Debating the future of the world from the South of the South
Davide Paliaga
Earth value maximization theory: Desirable future board governance within planetary boundaries
Patrick Eichler
Imagining desirable food systems: Prospective legitimacy and the stakeholder adoption gap
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-Amphitheater
Closing Session
Chair: Fabrizio Ferraro, Emilio Marti, Juliane Reinecke