The business environment for many firms is changing rapidly and is becoming increasingly uncertain due to the disruption caused by new digital technologies, deregulation, new business models, and the threat of new competitive entrants. This dynamic competitive environment increases the level of...

When organizations that have survived traumatic reversals – for example, product failures, ethical scandals or market disruption – attempt turnarounds, they usually seek a fresh start, adopting a new strategy and installing new leadership. But if this new initiative doesn't work and the...

Could there be a hidden cause of chronic failure in a corporation, where over many years multiple CEOs and new strategies can't revitalize the firm after a past painful stumble? An emerging theory is that the persistent after effects of a cultural, managerial or economic trauma can cripple an...

Digital technologies have created new markets and disrupted many others. As a consequence, many firms are operating in a highly turbulent and transformative business environment where senior executives are often drawn into the hype that new digital technologies create (North and Oliver, 2014)....

Media companies that adapt to changes in the competitive environment will succeed, whilst those that don't, will fail. That is the conclusion many of the contributors to this handbook will make during the course of their arguments. Our discussion on Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)...

Digital technologies have and will continue to transform the ways in which firms manage their business and employees. The effects of digital disruptive have created a highly uncertain and transformative environment where existing and often successful HR management strategies and practices are...