Performance management is an increasingly perilous and challenging activity for many firms, and involves understanding the drivers of performance as well as its measurement. Academics tend to see performance in terms of rationality, whereas business leaders tend to interpret drivers of overall...

For centuries, orchardists have known that the pruning of trees is the single greatest way to harvest healthy fruit in a sustained fashion: Pruning for thinning out allows the sunlight to penetrate the crown of the tree. And it is sunlight that makes fruit flavourful and delicious. Correctly...

Technological advancement compounds the complexity of competitor identification making it increasingly multi-front and multi-dimensional. Strategic groups are an important unit for competition analysis, typically delineated by firms’ characteristic similarities or cognitive maps. Both have...