... Uncertainty management Economic growth In his seminal 1970 work Future Shock, Alvin Toffler (1970) [1] concluded that millions of people were about to be overwhelmed by change. Central agents of future shock were corporations. In Toffler's view, corporations had become a mechanism...

... 2007 Resources Uncertainty management Entrepreneurialism Business development For all businesses, continued growth is a central challenge – where will it come from, how to invest for it, how to manage it? Since Edith Penrose's Theory of the Growth of the Firm (Penrose, 1959...

...). Methodologically this is a problem of the incompatibility between macro constructs and micro observations: no conclusions can be drawn about the similarity or diversity between individuals from culture level observations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Behaviour Social values Uncertainty...

..., 1997). Collins Dictionary defines a scenario as: “A predicted sequence of events.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Corporate strategy Risk management Uncertainty management Pierre Wack at Royal Dutch/Shell pioneered the use of scenarios in the 1960s. His belief...

... strategy requires higher levels of information pooling and exchange within companies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Decision making Risk management Uncertainty management Uncertainty and risk are familiar concepts for any senior manager. Yet there is little evidence suggesting...