We need to develop a better understanding of how to generate effective strategic adaptation in times of abrupt environmental changes. The global interdependencies across specialized economic functions and markets require that business activities co-evolve across interacting public-private...

1. Effective multinational responses combining intended and emergent actions -- 2. The dual pressures for integration and responsiveness -- 3. Organizing to deal with a dynamic global context -- 4. Using frontline stakeholders to sense the environment -- 5. Balancing a corporate mandate with...

pt. 1. Risk governance perspectives -- pt. 2. The management of strategic risk -- pt. 3. Corporate risk management insights -- pt. 4. The managerial impact on risk outcomes -- pt. 5. Effects on enterprise risk management -- pt. 6. Other aspects of strategic risk management.

Contemporary firms face complex dynamic environments notoriously difficult to predict, even impossible to foresee, where extraordinary events can inflict major disruptions. Interactive collaborative decision processes appear as better drivers of strategic adaptation. Yet, firms show vastly...

This book outlines the contours of the dynamic adaptive multinational corporation based on contemporary research insights from global strategy and international business. It considers the role of corporate leadership and frontline engagement to advance responsive innovation dealing with emergent...

This book promotes good risk governance and risk management practices to corporate managers, executives, and directors wherever they operate around the world. The major corporate scandals have their roots in governance failure pointing to the link between risk governance and good performance...

The genesis of this IFC White Book lies in the teaching materials prepared for IFC's Risk Governance Workshops conducted in 20 developing countries during the 2010–2012 time period by the book's authors. The book and workshops also benefited from the contributions of Torben Andersen of...