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Keyser, B. D., & Koen Vandenbempt. (2025). Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70054

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Welcome back to 🎙 Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where big, messy research problems get a second life, one idea at a time.

Today, we’re not just talking strategy. We’re walking into the eye of the storm. 🌪️💎

Imagine this: the world’s oldest diamond trading ecosystem, the Antwerp Square Mile, built on centuries of trust, ritual, and sparkling stones… suddenly confronted by a cool, precise, lab machine that can grow diamonds on demand. No history. No heritage. Just disruption. ⚙️✨

Most people ask, “How does the system react?”
This paper flips it: “Who dares to guide the system when everything is shaking?”

The article we’re unpacking is titled:
“Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro-Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption”
by Bart De Keyser and Koen Vandenbempt.

Published online on 12 December 2025 in the Journal of Management Studies — yes, that JMS, a prestigious FT50 journal 🏛️📈 — and brought to you by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

In this episode, we go small to think big.
We’ll follow three invisible pathways that leaders use when the ground is moving:

🧠 Cognitive – how they frame the disruption and rewrite what the ecosystem believes about itself.
🤝 Social – how they mend, stretch, and reweave relationships across rivals, brokers, and allies.
💓 Emotional – how they hold the fear, the pride, the fatigue, and still keep people engaged and resilient.

This is leadership without a throne, power without a script — orchestration through stories, ties, and feelings instead of commands. It’s about how everyday acts of interpretation, connection, and emotion can quietly steer an entire ecosystem through turbulence.

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A big thank you to the authors Bart De Keyser and Koen Vandenbempt, and to the Journal of Management Studies, Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for this powerful piece of research. 🙏📚

So, as lab-grown shocks collide with centuries-old stones, and leaders pull on cognitive, social, and emotional threads to keep the ecosystem intact…
are we watching a market defend its past, or witnessing the birth of an entirely new way to lead through disruption? 🤔💎🌍