About the subject
The third Big Six Questions of Strategic Management question addresses how multinational firms navigate geopolitical challenges in an ever-evolving landscape and whether firms are prepared for deglobalization and rising economic complexity and geopolitical divisions. It also explores the ways multinational firms need to rethink their organizational structures in destabilizing conflicts.
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to consider
- How should multinational firms adapt their strategies, organizational structures, governance, and partnerships as geopolitical and economic relationships change?
- How can firms balance efficiency, resilience, and strategic flexibility as global value chains, trade relationships, and the risk environment evolve?
- How should firms navigate regulatory divergence, sanctions, technological decoupling, and conflicting institutional demands across jurisdictions?
- How do geopolitical and economic shifts change firms' access to markets, investment, talent, technology, energy, and other strategically important resources?
- How are changing patterns of global interdependence altering the geography of production, innovation, investment, and value creation?
- Which firms, industries, and economies are positioned to gain or lose advantage as geopolitical and economic relationships evolve?
- What new strategic and entrepreneurial opportunities emerge from changing geopolitical, economic, and institutional landscapes?
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The big six questions
of strategic management
This is one question in a series, the Big Six Questions of Strategic Management, aimed at bridging the worlds of scholarship and practice. These questions serve as an inspiration to guide the development of actionable insights, frameworks, tools, and resources for the SMS community.