Organizational Life Cycles

Organizational Life Cycles

Read the article, “Organizational life cycles and shifting criteria of effectiveness: Some preliminary evidence”.(Access this article by going to the Library homepage and clicking on the ProQuest alternative database link in the pink announcement area on the right side; search using the article title).Describe the chronicle of life cycle change and the early stages of development, performance and resource acquisition, events leading to later stages of development, and the development of the formalization and control stage. Why do you think the author wrote about this topic? Why is it important?

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Different models highlight on organizational life cycles with four major stages, entrepreneurial phase, collectivity stage, formalization, and control phase, and elaboration of the structure. The summary model is a chronicle of changes within the organization, phases that have been developed after integrating nine models.

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