How the Future Shaped the Past: The Case of the Cashless Society

Bátiz‐Lazo, Bernardo; Haigh, Thomas; Stearns, David L.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1961542

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“…Typically, such imagined futures are legitimated by grounding them in history. That is, stakeholders must be convinced that the “imagined new social order is understood as the natural result of adopting an emerging, unproven technology” (Bátiz‐Lazo, Haigh, & Stearns, , p. 105). The success of the world's first multinational hotel chain, Hilton International, occurred, in part, because of Conrad Hilton's ability to position the notion of a global hotel chain within a teleological historical narrative of America's history of fighting communism (Maclean, Harvey, Suddaby, & O'Gorham, ).…”

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“…The success of the world's first multinational hotel chain, Hilton International, occurred, in part, because of Conrad Hilton's ability to position the notion of a global hotel chain within a teleological historical narrative of America's history of fighting communism (Maclean, Harvey, Suddaby, & O'Gorham, ). Similarly, Bátiz‐Lazo et al () demonstrate how the international banking community, interested in the potential cost savings of moving away from cash, helped to orchestrate a global conversation about the “cashless society,” an imagined future of electronic commerce. IBM CEO Thomas Watson was the key socio‐technological prophet in this conversation in which he argued that the cashless society was a historical inevitability.…”

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History and the micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities

Suddaby

Coraiola

Harvey

et al. 2019

Strategic Management Journal

120

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Research Summary The capacity to manage history is an important but undertheorized component of dynamic capabilities. We argue that the capacity to manage the interpretation of the past, in the present for the future, is a critical ability that informs a firm's ability to successfully enact changes needed to adapt to disruptive technology. We identify and elaborate three specific cognitive interpretations of history—history as objective fact, history as interpretive rhetoric, and history as imaginative future‐perfect thinking—and demonstrate how these different views of history can be mobilized by managers to sense, seize, and reconfigure around opportunities made available by understanding the invisible thread of technology. Managerial Summary History is typically understood to be a constraint on a manager's ability to effect change. A firm's past is assumed to create inertia in routines and structures that compromise a firm's ability to change. We show how acquiring a broader understanding of the role of history can improve a manager's ability to enact organizational change. Studying the evolution of technology over time and across products allows managers to sense opportunities created by technological change. Using different narrations of the past as continuous or disruptive can improve a manager's ability to motivate or resist change. Using the past to construct convincing scenarios of the future, managers can enroll key stakeholders in the industry to support a strategic direction that advances the firm's strategic goals.

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Section: Using Imaginative History To Reconfigure Products Firms Anmentioning

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Section: Using Imaginative History To Reconfigure Products Firms Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

History and the micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities

Suddaby

Coraiola

Harvey

et al. 2019

Strategic Management Journal

120

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“…Their changed business practices were in response to their vision of a West Africa very different from the one they had known before. It was this imagined future that determined managerial decision-making more than what actually came to pass (Batiz-Lazo et al, 2011).…”

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Solid intentions: An archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Decker

2014

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Research on organizational spaces has not considered the importance of collective memory for the process of investing meaning in corporate architecture. Employing an archival ethnography approach, practices of organizational remembering emerge as a way to shape the meanings associated with architectural designs. While the role of monuments and museums are well established in studies of collective memory, this research extends the concept of spatiality to the practices of organizational remembering that focus on a wider selection of corporate architecture. By analyzing the historical shift from colonial to modernist architecture for banks and retailers in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s on the basis of documents and photographs from three different companies, this article shows how archival sources can be used to untangle the ways in which companies seek to ascribe meaning to their architectural output. Buildings allude to the past and the future in a range of complex ways that can be interpreted more fully by reference to the archival sources and the historical context of their creation. Social remembering has the potential to explain why and how buildings have meaning, while archival ethnography offers a new research approach to investigate changing organizational practices.

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“…Current technological developments make small and medium enterprises have to be able to keep up with changing situations. Small and medium enterprises are small business entities established by communities that have contributed greatly to state revenues and can reduce unemployment in Indonesia [3].…”

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Use of Android Applications towards Small and Medium Enterprise Operations

Timara¹,

Ekawardani²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Informatics, Engineering, Science and Technology, INCITES

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The purpose of this study is to make small and medium enterprises can use Android applications to make a process of transactions with consumers easier. Qualitative method used to fulfill this study. The use of experimental methods solely to obtain information directly from consumers. This experience became the main data for this study. The results of this study are that with the Android application system, it will help small and medium businesses to use financial payment systems online that can be reached by every consumer. The conclusion is to find out how consumers regain the experience of using android applications. Since there are problems occur for both financial management and transactions with consumers, this application can simplify the process.

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How the Future Shaped the Past: The Case of the Cashless Society

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

History and the micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities

History and the micro‐foundations of dynamic capabilities

Solid intentions: An archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Use of Android Applications towards Small and Medium Enterprise Operations

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