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| Author: | Page, A. S. Jones, R. C. |
| Title: | Business growth - part 2 : Growth management. |
| Journal: | Management Decision
1990 : VOL. 28:3, p. 55-63 |
| Index terms: | COMPANY GROWTH BUSINESS APPRAISAL CORPORATE PLANNING UNITED KINGDOM |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Fast-growth companies illustrate the opportunities, threats, problems and pitfalls of business growth. The results of an in-depth study of 30 fast-growing British companies are described and analyzed. Organic growth and growth by acquisition are examined, as well as their strategic planning and implementation, their control of operations and their company development. Successful companies were found to be anti-bureaucratic and task-focused. Their keys to success were size flexibility and opportunism, a bold strategy but unsophisticated plans of implementation. The main weaknesses of the companies was a lack of attention to managing transitions - i.e. controlling the evolution of the company as it grew. |
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