Corporate governance faces growing criticism and calls for reform and regulation. Of course there are deep differences between governance models and the pressures for change they face. These differences have to be taken into consideration. Reforms and regulatory changes do provide frameworks to...

Once successful, most companies fall victim to strategic rigidity. The more the business model is attuned to the existing environment, the harder it is to reform it when conditions change. In response to this renewal challenge, the “agile organization” has been hailed as a way to keep...

Incumbents find it difficult to respond successfully to the digital disruption, they may not recognize or take proper measure of the threat early enough and find it hard to develop and implement a timely and effective response. In this paper, based on academic research and personal managerial...

The current volatile environment and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the US call for a new policy approach. Traditional public sector bureaucracies and strategic planning and budgeting performed well in the more stable environment of the post-war decades. This paper explores how public...

Usual processes of alliance building, moving from strategy to partner selection, project definition, governance design and finally implementation by the partners are paced by trust building and often become too slow to respond to fast and hard to fathom digital disruptions. We propose an...

This working paper is part of a series with the overall title of “The Long Learning Journey”, retracing stages in the evolution of my intellectual curiosity and research work.In this paper, we highlight the fact that mature companies often remain very dependent on their home country for...

This working paper is part of a series with the overall title of “The Long Learning Journey”, retracing stages in the evolution of my intellectual curiosity and research work. In this paper, the focus is on analyzing the management processes of diversified multinational companies (MNCs). In...

This working paper is part of a series with the overall title of “The Long Learning Journey”, retracing stages in the evolution of my intellectual curiosity and research work.Most companies, and many large organizations, fall prey to growing rigidity as they mature. This paper presents...

This working paper is part of a series with the overall title of “The Long Learning Journey”, retracing stages in the evolution of my intellectual curiosity and research work.In this paper, I put my work on strategic alliances over decades into perspective, in particular showing the...