Managing the Future: Foresight in the Knowledge EconomyISBN: 978-1-4051-1614-5
Hardcover
240 pages
May 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Haridimos Tsoukas is the George D. Mavros Research Professor
of Organization and Management at the Athens Laboratory of Business
Administration (ALBA), Greece and Professor of Organization
Studies, Warwick Business School, UK. He has published widely in
several leading academic journals, including the Academy of
Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization
Studies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies,
and Human Relations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of
Organization Studies, serves on the Editorial Board of
several journals and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of
Organization Theory: Meta-theoretical Perspectives (OUP, 2003).
Jill Shepherd is Assistant Professor of Management at the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, and co-organizer of the First International Conference on Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Her research interests centre around the use of evolutionary theory, particularly a branch called memetics, to investigate knowledge creation and innovation within corporates, high tech firms and clusters. Prior to becoming an academic, Jill worked in industry both in an international corporate setting and in a ‘dot.com’ and operated as an international management consultant for a number of years.