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2021
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[Journal:] Journal of Organization Design [ISSN:] 2245-408X [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 3-18
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Springer, Cham
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New competitive and environmental challenges have fostered renewed attention towards organizational design. This scenario calls for a significant return to organizational design studies that embrace a holistic approach, especially those focusing on the simultaneous interaction of multiple design elements. Organizational life cycle (OLC) models provide a fitting response to this call. In this paper, we review the organizational design characteristics of five seminal OLC models. We show that according to these OLC models, growth in size - which is described as unavoidable - generates business issues that firms are forced to solve by adopting only one possible organizational configuration, here following a deterministic organizational approach. We challenge this approach and propose conceiving of OLC as an evolutionary process, which calls for a variety of equifinal organizational solutions. We conclude by proposing future research avenues.
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Organizational life cycle
Organizational design
Vertical differentiation
Horizontal differentiation
Centralization
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