Abstract
Human beings always tend to believe in a rate of change that is greater in the present than it was in the past or will be in the future. This belief applies to technological development, development of new products, and what we know about how to succeed in business and management of resources. This banal and oft-repeated idea, however, has more truth in it now than at any time in the 1980s as far as business is concerned.
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© 1989 Bengt Karlöf
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Karlöf, B. (1989). Modern Corporate Development. In: Business Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11265-4_1
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