This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future. Moving away from traditional research which focuses on the past, the editors problematize the future as an inherent but under-examined part of organizing. Arguing that the future acts as both a driver of and a performative result of organizing, the book asks how organizations conceptualize and deal with the future and what processes are in place to handle things to come. With empirical research examining the practices, discourses and concepts that play key roles, organizations and their approaches are scrutinized. A timely compendium of theoretical discussion and practical implications on the relevance of the future, this book is essential reading for those interested in organization, sociology and management studies.

This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future. Moving away from traditional research which focuses on the past, the editors problematize the future as an inherent but under-examined part of organizing. Arguing that the future acts as both a driver of and a performative result of organizing, the book asks how organizations conceptualize and deal with the future and what processes are in place to handle things to come. With empirical research examining the practices, discourses and concepts that play key roles, organizations and their approaches are scrutinized. A timely compendium of theoretical discussion and practical implications on the relevance of the future, this book is essential reading for those interested in organization, sociology and management studies.

Der Band gibt einen UEberblick uber aktuelle Debatten der Kommunikationswissenschaft und angrenzender Disziplinen. Funf sowohl in der Tradition einer interpersonalen Kommunikationsforschung als auch in den gegenwartigen Debatten wiederkehrende Themenkomplexe dienen dabei als Ausgangspunkte fur empirisch interessierte und theoretisch reflektierte Annaherungen an Kommunikation als Koordination des Handelns. Fachvertreter benachbarter Disziplinen wie Soziologie, Germanistik, Anglistik, Philosophie, Journalistik und Geschichte beleuchten diese Themenkomplexe aus ihren je spezifischen Sichtweisen.