Strategic responsiveness and adaptive organisations: new research frontiers in international strategic management

The global business environment is becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable; reflecting the consequences of operating in a dynamic and complex business environment in constant flux with the potential of extreme outcomes.

As a consequence, corporate performance data generally displays very few high-performers and a fat tail of many under performing firms.

This business context means that contemporary managers need to be equipped to deal effectively with the implied uncertainty, abrupt events,and extreme outcome effects.

This volume presents a number of promising ideas about how to deal with the strategic challenges of global business turbulence.