Scenario planning as organizational intervention: An integrative framework and future research directions
Review of International Business and Strategy
ISSN: 2059-6014
Article publication date: 6 March 2017
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to identify four areas in need of future research to enhance the theoretical understanding of scenario planning (SP), and sets the basis for future empirical examination of its effects on individual and organizational level outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper organizes existing contributions on SP within a new consolidating framework that includes antecedents, processes and outcomes. The proposed framework allows for integration of the extant literature on SP from a wide variety of fields, including strategic management, finance, human resource management, operations management and psychology.
Findings
This study contributes to research by offering a coherent and consistent framework for understanding SP as a dynamic process. As such, it offers future researchers with a systematic way to ascertain where a particular study may be located in the SP process and, importantly, how it may influence – or be influenced by – various factors in the process.
Originality/value
This study offers specific research questions and precise guidelines to future scholars pursuing research on SP.
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Citation
Balarezo, J. and Nielsen, B.B. (2017), "Scenario planning as organizational intervention: An integrative framework and future research directions", Review of International Business and Strategy, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 2-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-09-2016-0049
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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