Affiliation:
1. 1Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China
Abstract
Current research on organizing for the future has explored how practitioners make sense of uncertain future but provides limited explanations of how they actually make a present course of action for the future. The study contributes to the literature by focusing on making rather than sensemaking, concretizing future goals to generate “as-if” realities in order to mobilize actions. Building on a case of Yuan village’s pursuit of food safety goals in China, the study reveals a roleplaying mechanism that practitioners adopt to act out the role of the future (fake it) and make it by working backward to fill the gap with discursive practices, capacity building, and present actions.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
Atmospheric Science,Geology,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology,Ecology,Environmental Engineering,Oceanography