The 10 biggest challenges companies face at present (and want consultants for)
A qualitative evaluation primarily based on a case research is introduced in this chapter. The analyzed case involves an Italian family-owned small business that faced the recent economic disaster adopting a mixture of defensive and offensive strategies. Thanks to this balanced—ambidextrous—strategy, the company was in a position to limit the impact of the crisis after which to get well positive profit margins. This research contributes to the extant literature by shedding mild on how the aim of preserving the socio-emotional wealth can affect small family corporations’ capacity to …