Investigating organizational characteristics during the first three lifecycle stages using the PAEI framework and the system dynamics approach

Investigating organizational characteristics during the first three lifecycle stages using the PAEI framework and the system dynamics approach

The purpose of this research is to analyse the characteristics and behaviour of an organization over the course of 100 months of the courtship, infancy, and go-go stages of its lifecycle. Moreover, the causal feedback loops and stock-and-flow diagrams of each stage of the organizational lifecycle ar...

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Published in:Computational and mathematical organization theory Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 35 - 60
Main Authors: Mowlanapour, Ramin, Farjami, Yaghoub, Saghafi, Fatemeh
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01-03-2021
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Bureaucrats
Business and Management
Corporate culture
Creativity
Diagrams
Efficiency
Entrepreneurship
Feedback loops
Infancy
Initiatives
Life cycle analysis
Management
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Organization theory
Organizations
Research Paper
Roles
Sociology
Strategic management
System dynamics
Strategic management
Adizes’s PAEI framework
System dynamics
Strategy formulation
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Summary:The purpose of this research is to analyse the characteristics and behaviour of an organization over the course of 100 months of the courtship, infancy, and go-go stages of its lifecycle. Moreover, the causal feedback loops and stock-and-flow diagrams of each stage of the organizational lifecycle are plotted. The PAEI framework proposed by Adizes and the system dynamics approach are employed to understand the organizations treatment throughout its lifecycle. To tackle problems that the organization may face during each stage of its lifecycle, we have suggested some appropriate strategies. Although there are studies that analysed the dynamic treatment of the lifecycles of organizations, the current study is the first attempt to employ the Adizes’s PAEI framework and the system dynamics method to understand organizations treatment throughout their lifecycles.
ISSN:1381-298X
1572-9346
DOI:10.1007/s10588-020-09319-4