Zhdanov
D.A. Tendencies of the Organizational-Managerial Evolution of
Corporations
The article
is devoted to the examination problem how the changes in the scope,
personnel
numbers and company age affect on its managerial structure. The
analysis is
based on the famous L. Greiner's model (1972) where a company's growth
is
viewed as a consistent alternation of evolutionary and revolutionary
stages of
development. In this model the examination of a company's evolution is
finalized with the fifth stage while the next in turn crisis is
indicated by
the author with the question mark, only marking it but not identifying
it. The
article based on the generalizations over the tendencies of modern
companies'
development suggests and proves the expansion of this model onto the
next step.
The author describes the crisis that follows the latest one which is
claimed by
Greiner as the evolutionary stage and is called «crisis of hierarchy».
Meeting
the crisis the company is able to proceed to the next stage, the sixth
evolutionary stage of development which is marked as «the stage of
cooperation».
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