Strategy-as-Practice and Future-making

This research area explores how organizations and their members shape their futures through strategic practices and processes. Grounded in practice perspectives, our research examines the everyday practices that constitute strategizing and future-making, investigating how actors navigate uncertainty and collectively construct their strategic futures.

We analyze the temporal and processual dimensions of organizing, studying how strategic practices unfold across different organizational contexts. Examples of specific research topics include strategizing in and beyond projects, how projects serve as vehicles for the making of desirable futures, venture strategy under conditions of adversity, and the practices through which futures are constituted in organizational life.

Through studying these dynamics, we contribute to understanding how organizations and individuals engage with uncertainty and temporal complexity in their strategic work. This research provides practitioners with actionable insights into how strategic practices can be designed and enacted to better navigate uncertainty and actively shape organizational futures and society.