Government as orchestrator (Adner, 2026) | FT50 SMJ

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Adner, R. (2026). Government as orchestrator: Ecosystem transformation at scale and speed. Strategic Management Journal, 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.70129

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🎙️🎩 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit! Pull up a leather armchair, pour yourself something civilized, and prepare for a tale of high-stakes strategy that reads less like a dry academic paper and more like a breathless Westminster thriller. 🕰️🥃

Picture the scene: a global crisis, the clock ticking down with ruthless precision, and the fate of millions hanging in the balance. 🌍⏳ Usually, when one mentions "the government," we conjure images of endless red tape, glacially slow committees, and Sir Humphrey Appleby nodding sagely while doing precisely nothing. 📜🐌

But what happens when the state decides not to be a lumbering bureaucrat, and instead steps onto the podium as a master conductor? 🎼🪄

Today, we are diving into a tour de force of scholarship titled "Government as orchestrator: Ecosystem transformation at scale and speed," penned by the brilliant mind of Ron Adner. 🧠✍️ Published online on the first of October, 2026, this gem graces the pages of the Strategic Management Journal. And let us pause to tip our hats here, because this is no ordinary publication; it is an ultra-prestigious titan of academia, proudly sitting on the coveted FT50 journal list! 🏆📚✨

Adner takes us behind the velvet curtain of Operation Warp Speed, the daring U.S. COVID-19 vaccine initiative. 💉🚀 Grand challenges, he reminds us, are ecosystem challenges. To win, you must align a fiercely independent cast of public and private rivals. 🤝🏛️🏢 How did they pull it off without relying on brute coercion, rigid hierarchy, or mere market signals?

Enter a fascinating new weapon in the strategist's arsenal: coordinative fiat. 🎯⚡ Adner reveals four masterstrokes for any leader: wielding this coordinative fiat to align independent players, designing a purpose-built orchestrating entity, reshaping your own internal halls of power to match the external mission, and recognizing that your "orchestration capacity" is the ultimate limit on your ambition. 🧩♟️

A massive, standing ovation of thanks goes to the author, Ron Adner, and the distinguished publisher, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., for bringing this masterclass in crisis leadership to light! 👏🎩💐

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Now, lean in close and tell me this: if a government can rewrite its own DNA to conquer a pandemic in record time, what is truly stopping our leaders from applying coordinative fiat to the next great human crisis tomorrow morning? 🤔🕵️‍♂️❓