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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

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