Browsing by Author "Pavez, Ignacio"

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    Collaborative Scenario Experimentation for Strategy Formulation to Shape Desirable Futures
    (2025) Wuth Izquierdo, Paula; Hernández, Ricardo J.; Merino Del Campo, Leonel Alejandro; Negrete, Sebastián; Pavez, Ignacio
    OVERVIEW: Organizations struggle to envision and shape the future amid increasing volatility and uncertainty, as traditional strategic planning often depends on past experiences. This article explores the intersection of foresight and future making to cocreate desirable futures. It examines the role of collaborative scenario experimentation in strategy formulation and the influence of technology and design in this process. Using an action research methodology at the Innovation Center at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, this study investigates how collaborative scenario experimentation can facilitate strategy formulation that shapes desirable futures. We identified four key sensemaking processes that strengthen this connection: experiencing diverse future scenarios, amplifying collective imagination, confronting expectations to envision desirable futures, and imagining the future to impact the present. We also identified two exploratory enablers—integrating technology to enhance collaborative scenario experimentation and translating design approaches into prospective theorizing and future-making practice—that support the application of these sensemaking processes by deepening immersion in future possibilities and enriching the artifacts and tools used during collaborative scenario experimentation.PRACTITIONER TAKEAWAYS: Traditional planning, which is anchored in past and present data, is insufficient in volatile environments. Collective scenario experimentation enables organizations to immerse themselves in diverse futures, challenge assumptions, and build strategies that are resilient and responsive to uncertainty. Organizations can move beyond merely anticipating change by engaging in collaborative scenario experimentation, which allows them to cocreate visions of desirable futures and translate them into actionable strategies. As a result, organizations can actively influence their trajectory rather than simply adapting to external forces. Immersive technologies deepen engagement with future scenarios and enrich the artifacts used in collaborative scenario experimentation, thereby strengthening the connection between imagination and strategy enactment.
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    Path integral description and direct interaction approximation for elastic plate turbulence
    (2023) Pavez, Ignacio; During, Gustavo
    In this work, we apply the Martin-Siggia-Rose path integral formalism to the equations of a thin elastic plate. Using a diagrammatic technique, we obtain the direct interaction approximation (DIA) equations to describe the evolutions of the correlation function and the response function of the fields. Consistent with previous results, we show that DIA equations for elastic plates can be derived from a non-markovian stochastic process and that in the weakly nonlinear limit, the DIA equations lead to the kinetic equation of wave turbulence theory. We expect that this approach will allow a better understanding of the statistical properties of wave turbulence and that DIA equations can open new avenues for understanding the breakdown of weakly nonlinear turbulence for elastic plates.
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    Reacting to criticism: What motivates top leaders to respond substantively to negative social performance feedback?
    (2025) Chliova, Myrto; Cacciotti, Gabriella; Kautonen, Teemu; Pavez, Ignacio
    The responses of organizations in situations of negative feedback from stakeholders are attracting increasing scholarly and societal attention. The literature has so far largely focused on situational factors that direct such responses, while calling for a more acute examination of individual factors. Anchored in Stakeholder Theory and Trait Activation Theory, this study examines how and to what extent prosocial motivation (a normative-oriented trait) and fear of failure (an instrumental-oriented trait) determine organizational leaders' substantive responses to negative social performance feedback. We test our predictions on two waves of original survey data, including a conjoint experiment, on a sample of leaders of young organizations. Our findings contribute to literature and practice related to organizational responses to social performance feedback.
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    Sustainable Human Resources Management and Psychological Contracts: Exploring Theoretical Anchors to Solve Relational Tensions in Employment Relationships
    (2024) Laulie, Lyonel; Pavez, Ignacio
    A core aspect of Sustainable Human Resource Management (S-HRM) has been its focus on developing high-quality employment relationships. This endeavor, however, has become increasingly complex, because the employee-employer relationship has undergone a profound transformation in recent years. This problem is further exacerbated by inherent tensions that surface when organizations aim to develop high-quality employment relationships in concert with sustainability-related goals. In this article, we intend to align theory and practice toward a more sustainable HRM by explaining how the psychological contract (PC) literature can provide new insights and perspectives to understand these tensions. We begin by delving into the nature and drivers of these sustainability-related tensions that arise when organizations strive to develop high-quality employment relationships. Next, we recount previous PC research that can inform the S-HRM literature to better understand how those tensions unfold. Finally, we identify concrete avenues for future research and discuss why integrating the PC and S-HRM literature could be an important path to expand our understanding of how to create more sustainable employment relationships.