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Icarus paradox: a standalone construct

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Icarusparadox1 CONSTRUCTIcarus paradoxMILLER · STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

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Strategic management

the pattern in which the very strengths behind a firm's success are carried to excess and become the cause of its decline.

In strategic management, Icarus paradox refers to the pattern in which the very strengths behind a firm's success are carried to excess and become the cause of its decline. This meaning comes from Miller (1992) in Business Horizons.[1]

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  1. Miller, D. (1992). The icarus paradox: How exceptional companies bring about their own downfall. Business Horizons, 35(1), 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/0007-6813(92)90112-m

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