Great companies — like great products and great nations — have always endured a four-stage life cycle: emergence, growth, maturity, and decline. Faster clockspeeds — enabled by compressed technology cycles and accelerated by new knowledge-sharing routines such as crowdsourcing — are...

Supply chain management is rapidly growing as both a strategic initiative and an academic discipline. As firms increasingly include their supply chain partners in the development of business strategy, researchers will have to constantly reevaluate the underlying themes and emergent theories of...