The Ant and the Grasshopper—A Business Story

Alessandro Capocchi ()
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Alessandro Capocchi: University of Milano-Bicocca

Chapter Chapter 2 in Vulnerability and the Corporate Immune System, 2023, pp 23-32 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Based on the well-known fairy tale The Ant and the Grasshopper, this section highlights the importance of planning, understood as management’s ability to prepare for the future. In socioeconomic systems, complexity and dynamism motivate companies and management systems to project their behavior and decision toward the end. Given this, defining the time horizon that drives business strategies in such a complex, turbulent, and dynamic system is crucial. In this section, we use the tale of the ant and the grasshopper as a lens through which to explore the possible attitudes that companies can adopt in dealing with risk.

Keywords: Business story; Ante; Grasshopper; Planning; Business strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30254-1_2

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