VUCA is an acronym that has recently found its way into the business lexicon. The components it refers to — volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity — are words that have been variously used to describe an environment which defies confident diagnosis and befuddles executives. In a...

The strategic management literature is unclear about how firm and industry effects influence performance, and the analysis of longitudinal data therein continues to be problematic. The authors analyze longitudinal data using hierarchical linear modeling to illustrate a random coefficients...

Most mergers fail because the newly constructed management team has been put in no position to actually lead. Can the pitfalls faced by merged teams be avoided, and the opportunities seized? Here are six guidelines for setting up new management to succeed