The organization for corporate foresight: a multiple case study in the telecommunication industry

The present paper focuses on the organisation for Corporate Foresight (CF): how the companies design their organisation to anticipate future trends and detect weak signals. The research focuses on a multiple case-study in the telecommunication industry. Through a comparison of eight international companies that perform CF with different performance levels, the paper highlights the organisational variables that characterize an organisation for CF and these variables have been related to CF performance measures. This conducted to a set of hypothesis that relate organization and performance.