Donald N. Michael’s research while affiliated with University of Michigan and other places

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Technology assessment in an emerging world
  • Article

March 1978

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Donald N. Michael

Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/22646/1/0000197.pdf



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... • Foresight is seen as a threat to the existing order [9]; distracting, disturbing, disruptive [41]; and managerial competence is equated with knowing and certainty and the future is uncertain [42] • "New information is almost invariably upsetting to routines and expectancies and, thereby, threatening to established images of competence" [43] • As foresight can be thought of as a device for "disturbing the present" [44], resistance is not the result of stupidity or venality of individuals, but rather is inherent to social systems [45] Foresight is viewed as intangible ...

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An organizational futurist role for integrating foresight into corporations
On growth and the limits of organizational responsiveness
  • Citing Article
  • December 1977

Technological Forecasting and Social Change