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Organizational passages—Diagnosing and treating lifecycle problems of organizations
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A model for identifying organizational styles is presented that is a contingency model in that it presents a framework for prescribing the treatments most likely to be effective depending on the lifecycle stage of the organization.About:
This article is published in Organizational Dynamics.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 452 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational learning & Organizational life cycle.read more
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A Longitudinal Study of the Corporate Life Cycle
Danny Miller,Peter H. Friesen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent literature on the corporate life cycle disclosed five common stages: birth, growth, maturity, revival, and decline, and a sample of 161 periods of history from 36 firms were classified into the five life cycle stages using a few attributes deemed central to each.
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Toward a Descriptive Stakeholder Theory: an Organizational Life Cycle Approach
I. M. Jawahar,Gary L. Mclaughlin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate theory and research from disparate areas to develop a descriptive stakeholder theory and show that at any given organizational life cycle stage, certain stakeholders, because of their potential to satisfy critical organizational needs, will be more important than others.
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Relation of Dominant Problems to Stages of Growth in Technology-Based New Ventures
TL;DR: In this article, two studies investigating the growth patterns of new ventures are presented, and a stage-of-growth model is proposed to apply specifically to technology-based new ventures.
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Tightening the Life-Cycle Construct: A Taxonomic Study of Growth Stage Configurations in High-Technology Organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the underlying construct of a life-cycle stage has been studied in the context of an organization life cycle, and it has been shown that the structure of such a life cycle can be traced back to the organization itself.
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Decline in Organizations: A Literature Integration and Extension.
William Weitzel,Ellen Jonsson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework for organizational decline, which integrates important underlying factors into the conceptual framework that refines the definition of decline in organizations, and discuss areas in which additional research is needed to develop sensitivity to the conditions leading to decline and a better understanding of conditions that are common to decline.
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