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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the Pilbara as an illustrative case study of some of the tension that arises out of a largely unmediated engagement of regional communities with neo‐liberal globalisation and to demonstrate the usefulness of Harvey's general matrix of...