This article reflects on the papers published in the Symposium on 'Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations'. After describing the background to the symposium we review some important themes in the multidisciplinary domain of counterfactuals. We discuss each of the papers published in the symposium and set out our views on future directions for counterfactual history in the management and organization studies discipline.
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Booth, C., M. Rowlinson, P. Clark, A. Delahaye, and S. Procter.2008. Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives. Futures40: forthcoming.
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Clark, P.A.2006. Superfactuals, structural repertoires and productive units: Explaining the evolution of the British auto industry. Competition and Change10: 397-414.
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Clark, P.A., C. Booth, M. Rowlinson, S. Procter and A. Delahaye.2007. Project Hindsight: Exploring necessity and possibility in cycles of structuration and co-evolution. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management19: 83-97.
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Ferguson, N.1997a. Virtual history: Towards a 'chaotic' theory of the past' . In Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals ed. N. Ferguson, 1-90. London: Macmillan.
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Ferguson, N., ed.1997b. Virtual history: Alternatives and counterfactuals. London: Papermac.
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Hellekson, K.2000. Towards a taxonomy of the alternate history genre. Extrapolation41: 248-56.
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Tetlock, P.E. and A. Belkin , eds. 1996a. Counterfactual though experiments in world politics: Logical, methodological and psychological perspectives . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Tetlock, P.E. and A. Belkin.1996b. Counterfactual thought experiments in world politics: Logical, methodological, and psychological perspectives . In: Counterfactual thought experiments in world politics : Logical, methodological, and psychological perspectives, ed. P.E. Tetlock and A. Belkin , 3-38. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Tetlock, P.E.,R.N. Lebow , and G. Parker, eds. 2006. Unmaking the west : 'What-if' scenarios that rewrite world history. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
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Tetlock, P.E., and G. Parker.2006. Counterfactual thought experiments: Why we can't live with them and how we must learn to live with them. In: Unmaking the west : 'What-if' scenarios that rewrite world history , eds. P.E. Tetlock, R.N. Lebow and G. Parker , 14-44. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
