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Volume 24, Issue 3
1 March 1996
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Review Article| March 01 1996

Flexible commitment: A key to strategic success

Balaji S. Chakravarthy
Balaji S. Chakravarthy
Professor and Director, Strategic Management Research Center, Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-9568
Print ISSN: 1087-8572
© MCB UP Limited
1996
Strategy & Leadership (1996) 24 (3): 14–20.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054553

There is a recurring theme in the spectacular successes of a Wal‐Mart in the U.S., a Canon in Japan, or an ISS in Europe: the ability to stake out future opportunities and make preemptive commitments to a competence platform. Commitment begets success. Being a first mover is becoming a necessary condition for success.

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