A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Creating organisational futures knowledge in Finnish companies
Authors: Laura Pouru, Mikko Dufva, Tarja Niinisalo
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Journal name in source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Volume: 140
First page : 84
Last page: 91
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 0040-1625
eISSN: 1873-5509
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.048
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.048
This article focuses on how organisations create knowledge about
futures, and how these knowledge creation practices could be improved.
The article is based on empirical data on Finnish companies as well as
on conceptual work on the nature and the use of futures knowledge. The
main message of the article is that the organisational practices of
futures knowledge creation have a narrow and singular scope, they treat
futures knowledge as a separate block and they are not based on best
practices in foresight. We propose ways to improve the current knowledge
creation practices and discuss the roles of foresight practitioners and
public and private actors in these practices.