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This 9 page paper looks at the way organizations evolve and develop over time. Looking at Griener’s article “Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow” the paper consider the new influences ion the organization and the way that this is likely to evolve, arguing that the next stage is likely to be a team based, fragmented structure, using theories such as those put forward by Zuboff and Handy The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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the pace at which businesses change, increasing pressures and compounding the problems associated with the pace of change and accelerating the need for firms to adapt and change as the
environment changes. Organizations have to change and develop, with the changes that take place reflecting the past, but as Griener (1994) notes, that often organizations fail to take into
account what is really occurring, blame failures on the wrong factors and the change or environment that takes place is not those that would be best for the organization, such
as the case of a bank that blames its managers for failures, when the real failures are the bureaucratic systems, the blame attributed to the wrong area may then
cost the organization more talented staff who leave compounding the problem. The failure to evolve and grow on the part of the organization becomes an issue as the decline set
in (Griener, 1994). This is a hypothetical scenario, but it emphasises the aspect of change and the way that this is influenced by internal as well as external forces (Griener,
1994). For firms to survive they have to change, evolving as they learn and adapt to the environment internal and externally, in recent years is may be argued that
rather than evolution, which can be defined as periods of growth were there are no major upheavals, that revolution, periods of change due to major upheavals are becoming more common
place (Griener, 1994). The stages of strategic alliances and collaboration has been seen, where the power and leverage that a firm
can gain has been enhanced by working with another where there are complimentary aspects, such as increasing market power, different stages of the same supply chain being brought together or
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