Leite & Audretsch (2026)
Firms don't fail from one big shock, they fail when invisible tensions quietly compound
A new framework argues organisations behave like complex adaptive systems, where small erosions in trust, ideology, or politics cascade into structural collapse. The authors test it against a 16th-century financier and Tesla.
- Interacting Q's
- the dynamic subunits (teams, leaders, stakeholders, regulators) whose recursive interactions generate emergent organisational behaviour
- PIE
- the triad of Politics, Ideology, and Economy through which external systemic forces co-shape every strategic move