The business model portfolio as a strategic tool for value creation and business performance

The number of organisations that operate multiple business models continues to increase.

Metaverse-enabled entrepreneurship

Metaverse is expected to be a trillion-dollar market within this decade and to change the nature of entrepreneurship.

Assessing the Relevance of Governmental Characteristics to Address Wicked Problems in Turbulent Times

Governments have long faced traditional bureaucratic problems and developed a set of mechanisms to handle them, but few studies have examined the government’s underlying characteristics in addressing such problems. Wicked problems – those with unclear definitions, causal complexity and conflicting goals – are increasingly emerging and are frequently observed in highly turbulent environments – those where variables behave in unpredictable ways. We study the relevance of a range of governmental characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic and find that, while all government characteristics are sometimes relevant, no single characteristic is always relevant and so they are best treated as a portfolio.

Organizational robustness: A conceptual framework

Understanding robustness and how organizations can configure and adapt is fundamental for their survival. In this paper, we build on the general system theory to conceptualize the underlying mechanisms of organizational robustness.