Strategic Viability Beyond Linearity

Strategic Viability Beyond Linearity brings together four theoretical essays that examine how strategic orientation changes when systems become more dynamic, interdependent, and difficult to represent through linear assumptions.The volume begins with the paradox of maladaptive efficiency: the possibility that optimisation, specialisation, and alignment may strengthen short-term performance while progressively weakening adaptability under changing environmental conditions. It then turns to the representational problem of strategy itself. If strategic reality develops through interacting configurations, shifting frictions, recursive feedback, and changing temporal conditions, then viable orientation can no longer depend upon positional logic alone.Across the essays, strategic viability is approached as a problem of representation, correspondence, and adaptation. Triadic geometry is developed as a means of representing complex strategic conditions more adequately than simplified linear structures, while the concepts of equifinality and multifinality extend the argument by showing that similar outcomes may emerge from different pathways and that similar starting conditions may lead to divergent results.Taken together, the essays question the assumption that strategy can be reduced to stable positions, singular trajectories, or predetermined causal sequences. Instead, they develop a view of strategy as continuous orientation within evolving systems in which efficiency, representation, temporality, and adaptation remain dynamically interconnected.The volume is intended for scholars and advanced readers interested in strategy, systems theory, complexity, organisation, and the theoretical foundations of strategic viability. This volume has undergone independent external academic peer review prior to publication.