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Growing Pains : Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm.
Since it was first published in 1986, Growing Pains has become a classic resource for understanding how start-ups can make the transition to become large, professionally-managed organizations that maintain the special spark that launched them. In the fourth edition of Growing Pains, authors Eric Fla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Entrepreneurship Versus Professional Management; Intended Audience; Overview of the Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One: A Framework for Developing Successful Organizations; The Second Challenge for Entrepreneurs; Making an Organizational Transition; 1: How to Build Successful Companies; The Nature of Organizational development; The Foundation of a Business; Six Key Organizational Development Tasks; The Pyramid of Organizational development.
- Implications of the Pyramid of Organizational DevelopmentResearch Support for the Pyramid; The Pyramid as a Lens to Build and Evaluate Organizations; Starbucks Coffee Company: Successful Use of the Pyramid; Boston Market: A Contrast with Starbucks; Summary; 2: Identifying and Surviving the First Four Stages of Organizational Growth; Stages of Organizational Growth; Stage I: New Venture; Stage II: Expansion; Stage III: Professionalization; Stage IV: Consolidation; Differences Between Entrepreneurial and Professional Management; Discrepancies Between Growth and Organizational Development.
- Managing the Transition Between Growth StagesPerform an Organizational Evaluation or Audit; Formulate an Organizational Development Plan; Implement the Organizational Development Plan and Monitor Its Progress; Managing the Transition: Maxicare Versus PacifiCare; Summary; 3: Recognizing Growing Pains and Assessing the Need for Change; The Nature of Growing Pains; The Ten Most Common Organizational growing Pains; Measuring Organizational Growing Pains; Scoring the Survey; Interpreting the Scores; Growing Pains Scores for Different Business Sizes and Industries.
- Use of Growing Pains Measurements in Making the TransitionGrowing Pains Scores and Their Management at Grange, Inc.; Organizational Growing Pains, Growth Rates, and Infrastructure; Growing Pains and Financial Performance; Minimizing Organizational Growing Pains; Summary; Part Two: Management Strategies for Each Stage of Organizational Growth; 4: The New Venture and Expansion Stages; Developing Successful Stage I organizations; Key Issues at Stage I; Hotmail: A Classic Example of Entrepreneurial Success; Significant New Venture of the 1980s: Personal Computers.
- Significant New Ventures of the 1990s: Internet FirmsOther Examples of New Venture Success; Significant New Ventures of the New Millennium: International Firms; Keys to a Successful Stage I Firm; Ability to Define a Market Need; Ability to Develop a Relevant Product or Service; Ability to Develop an Organization to Provide the Product or Service; Developing Successful Stage II organizations; The Osborne Syndrome; Other Examples of Problems at Stage II; Keys to a Successful Stage II Firm; Ability to Acquire Resources; Ability to Develop Complex Operational Systems.