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13362: Imaginaries and Emerging Technologies: Methods and Processes for Time Leaps and Future-Making

Saturday, July 26, 2025
13:30 - 15:30 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B6-m1
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Highlight: DIG Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/MK9MRJ
Management research increasingly emphasizes the importance of considering the future in organizing processes. While previous studies focused on future-oriented sensemaking, there is a growing need to explore more grand imaginative thoughts that shape (desirable) futures. In particular, emerging technologies like AI, machine learning algorithms, blockchain are transforming human actions and organizational capabilities, making the future more volatile and precarious. At the same time, we do not know enough about how the future will unfold with these technologies. This remains underexplored due to following challenges: the rapid advancement of these technologies complicates temporal structuring of the research phenomenon, and less-evident empirical data often raises skepticism about the validity and generalizability of research findings. Addressing these challenges requires innovative methods that enable organizations to navigate incomplete futures while still engaging in the present. Building on emerging discussions about future-making, this two part PDW will (1) bring together a panel of scholars to share their experiences in studying the future in the context of emerging technologies and (2) provide developmental support for scholars who are in the process of studying the future or who seek to adopt future-oriented perspectives as an approach to study their research questions.