Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Strategic Management

which might be compelling. Each panelist addressed the general theme with insights from his/her area of interest and expertise, and reflected upon its implications for future academic research and managerial practice. A general discussion followed the presentations, including questions from the audience. The panelists and their presentations are introduced and summarized in Table 1 below. In the following, we describe and interpret the content of the presentations. We locate the panelists’ different perspectives on the field of strategic management (its past and current develOn May 26, 2004, a panel discussion and symposium was held under the grand title The Future of Strategic Management Research and Practice at Lappeenranta University of Technology1. This international panel of experts exchanged views on recent developments and new directions in the field of strategic management and organization. Predictions about the future are predictably bad (March 1995). The panel was not gathered in hope that well-informed experts would correctly foretell the future. Rather, the idea was to stimulate imagination of potential futures,