Dear colleagues,
research on “future making” has crystallized as a vibrant area of research in management and organization studies. Yet, what counts as “future making” and what doesn’t? Is future making actually a relevant “new thing” that deserves to be studied?
Provoked by a forthcoming JMS Point-Counterpoint Debate on “future making” (URLs below), a JMS Dialogue Webinar will revolve around these questions.
Please join the conversation! Below, you find all details of the Dialogue Webinar, including the URL to the registration.
All the best,
Matthias
🔮 JMS Dialogue Webinar – What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?
🗓 10 July 2025 | ⏰ 9:00–10:00 AM CET | 📍 Online
The Journal of Management Studies is pleased to invite you to our next JMS Dialogue Webinar, where we will explore the timely and thought-provoking debate:
What is the future of future making in management research?
Considering urgent global challenges such as climate change, social inequality, and the fragility of democratic institutions, management scholars are increasingly engaging with future making; the process of shaping what is yet to come by imagining, interpreting, and enacting possible futures.
This webinar brings together the authors of a compelling Point-Counterpoint debate recently published in JMS. Each contribution offers a distinct vision of where future-making research might go from here - be it practical, cautious, or value-driven.
💡 Featuring:
🔹 Introductory remarks by JMS Editor Christopher Wickert
🔹 Point: Matthias Wenzel, Laure Cabantous & Jochen Koch – Future Making: Towards a Practice Perspective
🔹 Counterpoint 1: Alex Wright – Back to the Future? A Caution
🔹 Counterpoint 2: Alice Comi, Luigi Mosca & Jennifer Whyte – Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry
Join us for a critical and constructive discussion about the directions, dilemmas, and potential of future-making research in management studies.
👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/4jrLHAc
We look forward to your participation in this important dialogue.
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Matthias Wenzel
Professor
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lüneburg
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