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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Dynamics of Growth within Global Organisations
T2 - Issues, Consequences and Implications
AU - Sandhawalia, Birinder Singh
AU - Dalcher, Darren
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - An ever-accelerating rate of growth is altering the pace of change and making global organisations perform trade-offs in terms of organisational capabilities and quality of output. This paper reports on the empirical findings of a case study conducted at one of the world's largest software organisations and analyses the implications of rapid growth within global organisations. The paper further correlates the findings with the problems and issues confronting the world's largest automobile manufacturer, and establishes that growth needs to be planned to allow organisational capabilities and systems to support rapid expansion. Overall, the research highlights the important lessons learnt from accelerated growth within global organisations, and identifies the areas of future research required to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon.
AB - An ever-accelerating rate of growth is altering the pace of change and making global organisations perform trade-offs in terms of organisational capabilities and quality of output. This paper reports on the empirical findings of a case study conducted at one of the world's largest software organisations and analyses the implications of rapid growth within global organisations. The paper further correlates the findings with the problems and issues confronting the world's largest automobile manufacturer, and establishes that growth needs to be planned to allow organisational capabilities and systems to support rapid expansion. Overall, the research highlights the important lessons learnt from accelerated growth within global organisations, and identifies the areas of future research required to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon.
U2 - 10.1142/S0219649211002870
DO - 10.1142/S0219649211002870
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 123
EP - 134
JO - Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
JF - Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
SN - 0219-6492
IS - 2
ER -