... design, generalizability was restricted. Originality/value Results provide a compelling, intimate portrait of a worldwide organizational effort to synergize leadership and strategic growth capabilities using a chiefly emergent approach. This illustration thus makes a unique contribution...

... (Burke, 2008). Organization vitality acts as an enabling force to grow, compete and succeed and is critical for organizational life. Performance and growth have been considered as contributory factors of vitality (Ireland et al., 2001 ; Woodman, 2011). Organizational environment...

... at the managers’ activities from a strategy management point of view, they spend very little time on strategic activities. This finding may explain why firm growth in many cases declines or even ceases. Originality/value The paper contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on strategic processes...

.... They are passionate and driven. However, they need to balance their own external growth (for instance, acquiring technological expertise) with internal growth (refining self‐knowledge and being sensitive to others’ goals and capabilities). The hallmark of expansiveness is continuous growth and development...

...Wayne J. Merdinger Presents thoughts on the decision to implement a total quality management programme. This is a company which has undergone extraordinary growth over recent years and finds itself at the crucial point of transition from the small entrepreneurial firm to the larger corporate...