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March 24, 2026Futures & Foresight ScienceOpen Access

From Scenario Thinking to Scenario Doing: Strategic Management as Wayfinding

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HSHarry Sminia

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This analysis proposes wayfinding as a dynamic approach for firms to evolve strategically, highlighting practical coping and solutioning.

Key Points

  • The paper aims to redefine strategic management through the concept of wayfinding, emphasizing the role of practical coping and intelligibility.
  • Theorizes the integration of scenario thinking and dynamic capability in strategic management.
  • Proposes a framework for wayfinding as participation in developmental trajectories.
  • Discusses the case of MP3’s integration into the recorded music field to illustrate the framework.
  • Identifies practical coping as essential for firms to maintain a 'business-as-usual' trajectory.
  • Highlights the breakdown of practical coping when practical intelligibility is lacking.
  • Demonstrates that scenario thinking evolves into speculative imagination to create new intelligibility.

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Harry Sminia (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c229bdaeb5a845df0d4a1ahttps://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.70038
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