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Tightening the Life-Cycle Construct: A Taxonomic Study of Growth Stage Configurations in High-Technology Organizations
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Over the years much has been written about the organization life cycle, yet there has been remarkably little attention given to the underlying construct of a life-cycle stage. It is proposed in this study that each life-cycle stage consists of a unique configuration of variables related to organization context and structure. Cluster analysis is used to derive a taxonomy of growth stage configurations in a sample of 126 high-technology organizations. The derived configurations suggest a sequence of four growth stages.
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- Hanks, S. H., Watson, C. J., Jansen, E., & Chandler, G. N.
- Venue
- Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1994-01
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 5-29
- ISSN
- 1042-2587 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-6520
- OpenAlex
- W2782918873
- Cited by
- 659
- References
- 33
- FWCI
- 10.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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