Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Abatecola Gianpaolo
    Interpreting corporate crises: Towards a co-evolutionary approach
    in Futures , Volume 44, Issue 10 ,  2012 ,  860-869
    Managing corporate crises has always been a topic of interest in the evolving research about futures, especially as far as recent literature about scenario planning is concerned. Dealing with crises is even more important to date, because of the large amount of corporate failures determined by the current macro-economic recession worldwide. While a number of reliable research methodologies on crises’ antecedents exist, it is still maintained that both the literature and practice of management lack appropriate theoretical perspectives for holistically capturing the overall dynamics of crises’ paths. This conceptual article aims at contributing to filling this gap by suggesting that patterns of corporate crises can be conceived through extensively drawing on the evolving literature about organizational adaptation. The article follows one of the latest streams of research published in Futures. In fact, through adopting co-evolutionary lenses to adaptation, the article provides its readers with an interpretative framework that conceptualizes crises’ patterns as an ineffective adaptation process.
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