"Change challenges leaders, managers and strategists, and demands that they confront their new realities. This book offers a fresh, reader-friendly, challenging and provocative perspective on strategic management, detailing the 'confront-sense-choose-transform' process stages, which begins with...

With so many firms seemingly disenchanted with their experiences of offshore outsourcing one may well wonder why relatively few of these firms choose to ‘backsource’ – i.e., bring their offshored operations back in-house. Of all sourcing decisions that firms take, backsourcing is perhaps...

At the level of a cognitive schema, a business model is a mental map of a firm’s value-creating, value-delivering, and value-capturing activities and the linkages between them. An important question in the study of business models as cognitive schemas is whether and how schemas differ across...