Purpose: This paper aims to investigate business network activity patterns and how they change when actors experience tensions. Design/methodology/approach: Four tensions, developed from previous literature, are considered in relation to how they influence activity patterns. A longitudinal case...

Organizations are complex adaptive systems in symbiosis with increasingly challenging, competitive and demanding environments. As a result, they face developments and demands based on increasingly information-based, knowledge-driven and service intensive economies. This requires speed,...

Purpose: Penrose’s argument regarding the managerial constraint on continual expansion over two consecutive periods is termed the “Penrose effect,” a relatively less investigated premise in Penrose’s growth theory. The purpose of this paper is to empirically re-examine the Penrose...