Join our PDW, where we explore complexities of studying and theorizing the future in management research.
Date/time: Saturday, July 26, 2025 | 1:30-3:30 PM CEST
Location: Bella Center, Hall B - B6-m1
Panel presentation session featuring:
- Juliane Reinecke (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
- Omid Omidvar (Warwick Business School)
- George Kuk (Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Stephanie Giamporcaro (Kedge Business School)
- Laure Cabantous (ESCP Business School, Paris)
- Frida Pemer (Stockholm School of Economics)
The panellists will share their experiences in studying the future in the context of emerging technologies to explore following questions:
- How can we effectively study and theorize the future?
- What are the typical challenges scholars face when studying the future? How can we overcome concerns regarding validity and generalizability?
- What is the role of imagination in shaping organizational futures? How do imagination and "magical thinking" commit actors to courses of action in the present?
- What are the practices, narratives, tactics, and moves through which certain futures become communicatively performed?
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us soo-young.choi@wbs.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you very soon!
Soo Young Choi, Warwick Business School
Stefan Haefliger, Stockholm School of Economics
Laure Cabantous, ESCP Business School, Paris
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Soo Young Choi
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick, UK
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