Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307517 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Organization Design [ISSN:] 2245-408X [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 3-18
Publisher: 
Springer, Cham
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Organizational life cycle
Organizational design
Vertical differentiation
Horizontal differentiation
Centralization
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Document Type: 
Article

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