This paper reports exploratory research on building new social capital with scenario planning. The key finding is that scenario planning can be deployed to build new social capital. This is done through a counterfactual process analogous to Normann’s proposed “crane building” whereby a...

Organizational identity (understood as a ‘logic of appropriateness’ such that organizations act based on how they define themselves) has emerged as one of the core concepts of management theory. Despite this, it has been under-attended to in scenario planning literature and practice, perhaps...

Practitioners have observed that scenario planning contributes to building new social capital. In scenario planning terms, new social capital can provide access to new information, novel strategic options and unprecedented collaborative opportunities. However, there is no description or...

Organizational identity (understood as a ‘logic of appropriateness' such that organizations act based on how they define themselves) has emerged as one of the core concepts of management theory. Despite this, it has been under-attended to in scenario planning literature and practice, perhaps...

This paper reports exploratory research on building new social capital with scenario planning. The key finding is that scenario planning can be deployed to build new social capital. This is done through a counterfactual process analogous to Normann's proposed “crane building” whereby a...