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The New Business Environment of 2020s: Turbulence, Uncertainty, and Change

The negative forces of coronavirus (COVID-19) temporarily disrupted normal business activities and paralyzed the forces of market-the demand and supply that made the market economies freeze. The lockdown stagnated the revenues and profits suddenly turned into losses. COVID-19 has caused heavy economic destruction with rapid change in the business environment, resulting in profound shock to […]

Organizational Barriers to Transformational Change

According to the punctuated equilibrium model, organizations evolve through relatively long periods of equilibrium (stability), which then get disrupted by shorter periods of instability to accommodate more fundamental revolutionary change. These revolutionary periods then attempt to re-stabilize the organization into a new equilibrium period. From this perspective, organizations resist change because resistance to change establishes […]

Internal Sources of Strategic Transformation: Competitive Advantage through Innovation

The fundamental purpose of strategic management is to keep the firm in tune (strategic fit) with its unstable, unpredictable, and competitive business environment. Any form of change in the firm’s external environment, including technological change, is a problem for established firms because these firms find difficulties in coping with it. The reason for this is […]