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The Ant and the Grasshopper—A Business Story

In: Vulnerability and the Corporate Immune System

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  • Alessandro Capocchi

    (University of Milano-Bicocca)

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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.

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  • Alessandro Capocchi, 2023. "The Ant and the Grasshopper—A Business Story," Springer Books, in: Vulnerability and the Corporate Immune System, chapter 0, pages 23-32, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-30254-1_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30254-1_2
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