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By the end of this chapter you should be able to identify the main stages of growth of an organisation and understand how (and why) its structure changes as it develops and grows.
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Further Reading
To go deeper into organisations and their development, you have to look to some very serious books. One such (but stimulating and becoming a classic) is Alfred D. Chandler, Strategy and Structure (MIT Press, 1962 ).
Two books by Charles Handy should be referred to: Understanding Organisations (Penguin Books, 1976) and The Gods of Management (Souvenir Press, 1991).
A British view about managing strategic change will be found in Successful Change Strategies by Bernard Taylor (Director Books, 1994).
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Oldcorn, R. (1996). How Organisations Develop and Grow. In: Management. Macmillan Business Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13195-2_6
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