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Record Nr.

UNINA9911031662203321

Autore

Kühl Stefan

Titolo

Exploring Markets : A Very Brief Introduction / / by Stefan Kühl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-032-05029-4

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (50 pages)

Collana

Social Sciences Series

Disciplina

302.35

305.9

Soggetti

Organizational sociology

Occupations - Sociological aspects

Economics - Sociological aspects

Industrial organization

Management

Sociology of Organizations and Occupations

Economic Sociology

Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Observing the Environment -- Chapter 2. Beyond the Objectivist View—the Cognitive Turn -- Chapter 3. Approaches to Exploration. Chapter 4. Options for Constructing Reality—Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Organizations construct their environments themselves. From the bewildering, chaotic array of impressions, they take those bits of information that enable them to produce such a view of the environment – one that makes it possible for them to operate in the environment with relative confidence. Thus, contrary to what traditional market research suggests, organizations do not respond objectively to existing environmental conditions, but invent, construct and create their realities themselves.The goal of exploring the environment –or, more specifically, exploring markets – is to influence this construction process through re-framing, de-generalization and hypothesis formation and thus to allow organizations to discover unusual things. Stefan Kühl is professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld in



Germany and works as a consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles and Zurich.