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  Family Business ReviewVolume 10 Issue 4, Pages 397 - 409 Published Online: 20 Apr 2004 © 2008 Family Firm Institute, Inc. Published on behalf of the Family Firm Institute, Inc.
Abstract | Full Text: PDF (Size: 105K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow: A company's past has clues for management that are critical to future success. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review. From "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow" by Larry E. Greiner, July-August 1972. Copyright 1997 by the Family Firm Institute, Inc. ABSTRACT
This author maintains that growing organizations move through five distinguishable phases of development, each of which contains a relatively calm period of growth that ends with a management crisis. He argues, moreover, that since each phase is strongly influenced by the previous one, a management with a sense of its own organization's history can anticipate and prepare for the next developmental crisis. This article provides a prescription for appropriate management action in each of the five phases, and it shows how companies can turn organizational crises into opportunities for the future growth. Mr. Greiner is associate professor of organizational behavior at the Harvard Business School and the author of several Harvard Business Review articles on organization development. |  |
