Organizational Life Cycle Research Articles

Competitiveness of a building company within the organisational life cycle

Competitiveness of a building company within the organisational life cycle

Planning the amount of construction work by modelling the industry competitive field

The article gives the author’s interpretation of concepts such as the model of competitive field and competitive market conditions in the field, and shows how to quantify the competitive field provided adequate statistical base for the operation of enterprises in market competition. The authors offer a competitively construction company with a model of the competitive field, which gives the following definition: a model of a competitive field is a graph crossing function of the life cycle of concrete products construction companies. However, the model cannot afford to manage the process, it only helps to visualize the situation. To control you need to select a specific element of the model, which can be quantified. The authors make it through the competitive field, which is defined as a closed path created by the intersection of functions depending on the market price of the construction product by product positioning in the market of the time. For a quantitative analysis of the competitive field size must use the main economic-mathematical methods and types of statistical analysis of competition.

Comparison of Qualifications-Based Selection and Best-Value Procurement for Construction Manager–General Contractor Highway Construction

Faster project delivery and the infusion of contractor knowledge into design are the primary drivers for choosing construction manager–general contractor (CM-GC) project delivery. This study focuses on the use of qualifications-based selection (QBS) and best-value (BV) procurement approaches, how and why agencies use each approach, and their associated opportunities and obstacles. Data for this study were obtained from a majority of federally funded CM-GC projects completed between 2004 and 2015. It was found that the use of BV procurement versus QBS procurement had no statistically significant difference in project characteristics or in performance of the projects in the data set. The choice of BV or QBS procurement coincided with an agency’s CM-GC stage of organizational development and influences of nonagency stakeholders on the CM-GC process. When agencies and the local industry were new to CM-GC, they were found to use BV procurement because it is closer to the traditional procurement culture and is perceived to result in a fair market project price. Alternatively, agencies and local industry partners with an established history of using CM-GC projects were found to choose QBS procurement. Because of the low level of design at the time of procurement, assumptions relating to risk, production rates, materials sources, and other aspects may be too preliminary to secure a reliable price. The use of BV procurement was found to pose a risk to innovation and to increase negotiation efforts. Qualitative trends from the project data, interviews, and the literature point to agencies using QBS procurement for the majority of CM-GC projects and BV procurement for CM-GC projects with lesser complexity or more highly developed designs at the time of selection.

Риск и неопределенность в концепции жизненного цикла организации

Риск и неопределенность в концепции жизненного цикла организации

Identifying Effective Online Service Strategies: The Impact of Network Externalities and Organizational Lifecycle Stage

Identifying Effective Online Service Strategies: The Impact of Network Externalities and Organizational Lifecycle Stage

The Role of Interactive Controls at a Later Stage of Organizational Life-Cycle

The Role of Interactive Controls at a Later Stage of Organizational Life-Cycle

Graphical-analytic model to form investment policy of industrial enterprise

The article is devoted to the research of graphical-analytic method to form investment policy of industrial enterprise in the capacity of a specific tool to achieve the strategic aim at various stages of life-cycle (LCS). The necessary to formalize the system of estimations is caused by lack of methodological basis of defining quantitative characteristics relying on qualified criteria. To designing graphical-analytic pattern in the capacity of a tool forming investment policy of organisation within the stated development strategy. The comparative analysis of factors that are influencing the investment policy and the stage of organisation life-cycle has been carried out. Theoretical-methodological basis concepts of the development have been considered. All criteria for quantitative estimation of the stage of organisation life-cycle and the performance of investment policy have been proved in the course of the research. The classific characteristics of criteria to estimate the stage of the life-cycle and concepts of investment policy have been formalized. The choice of criteria and interval boundary and its characteristics has been made. The estimation method of the stage of the organisation life-cycle has been introduced. The research, that has been carried out, proves the possibility to develop practical application of graphical-analytic pattern forming investment policy and estimating the stage of life-cycle and type of the investment policy of an analyzed organisation.

Problems, Conditions and Factors of Formation of Competitive Potential of the Construction Industry Enterprise

Objectives: To develop conceptual provisions and methodical bases, creating conditions for the growth of competitive advantages of construction industry companies. Methods: The study used a systematic, objective-functional, structural and optimization methods to solve these problems, expanding the scope of the subject-functional, resource and market and marketing approaches to the development and effective use of competitive potential, allowing wholistically representing the mechanism of planning and forecasting of its composition and structure, substantiation of criteria and indicators for effective use, development of marketing strategy, contributing to the assessment of alternative opportunities and selection of the most priority directions of use of the construction industry companies resources. Findings: The article defines the tactics of market positioning of the construction industry company, underlying its competitive status formation, determined by the level of investment, competitive strategy and competitive potential. A structural model of planning and forecasting competitive potential, depending on the stages of construction industry company lifecycle has been proposed. The necessity of applying marketing approach to the formation of competitive potential, based on the principle of customization, which establishes a relationship between the sovereignty of the consumers and the maximum satisfaction of consumer preferences in conditions of limited solvency and predictability of demand for construction industry products has been justified. It is proved that economic potential of the construction industry companies, being a factor of competition, becomes competitive only when its elements are structurally and functionally able to implement an effective marketing strategy and business ideas. Improvements: Article materials are of scientific and practical value for the development of instrumental database of diagnostics, analysis and assessment of the level of competitive potential; they orient the heads of construction industry companies to achieve strategic and tactical management purposes to ensure their long-term effective operation and development in market conditions.

Top Management Team Diversity and Company Performance: The moderating effect of Organization Life Cycle

The research paper examines the moderating impact of Organizational Life Cycle on the relationship between Top Management Team Diversity and Company Performance. The study first elaborates and establishes the theoretical link between organization lifecycle and composition of management elites. Second, a quantitative empirical study is conducted to test the OLC stages moderating impact on the upper echelons diversity and firm performance of the top companies in the Czech Republic. A detailed procedure is developed to accurately classify organizations at different lifecycle stages, drawing extensively on existing literature and scales. Paper findings state that more mature the company becomes, more diversified the senior management is regardless the firm performance. Also, the industry dynamism impact has its own role in the relationship between the organization life cycle and senior management diversity which is expressed by the paper findings as well.

A maturing civil society in China? The role of knowledge and professionalization in the development of NGOs

This article suggests that Chinese NGOs do not have the conviction that they are part of an epistemic community in mainland China. Interviews conducted in four cities, Chongqing, Kunming, Nanjing and Shanghai, suggest that this can be attributed to a lack of set standards and professionalization governing their sector of operation. Further, the study finds that Chinese NGOs do not see knowledge production as their primary role within their organizational development life cycle. This may indicate a varying path towards the maturation of civil society in China, whereby Chinese NGOs do not conform to the organizational development process as outlined in extant NGO literature.

Does Establishing Sociopolitical Legitimacy Overcome Liabilities of Newness? A Longitudinal Analysis of Top Performers

This work builds upon an existing stream of research that seeks to empirically elucidate the role of legitimacy in helping entrepreneurs overcome liabilities of newness. More specifically, we examine the relationship between legitimating activities and performance in new ventures. We add to the empirical literature on the legitimacy/performance relation by focusing on top performing firms (on multiple performance measures) during the initial phase of the organizational life cycle. Moreover, we submit that our longitudinal sample, which includes data from nearly 5,000 new ventures, offers an important opportunity to enhance the external validity of this base of literature. Interestingly, we find that the value of engaging in legitimating activities depends upon the outcome measure. With regard to top line performance, and in accordance with theory and extant literature, we find that companies engaging in more legitimating activities at start-up are more likely to be top performers as they move beyond the “birth” phase. However, with regard to profitability, engaging in these activities may actually be detrimental.

Company Life Cycles in Database Analyses: An Approach for the Future?

This article outlines an approach on how to enhance and simultaneously simplify economic analyses in a TNMM environment where commercial company databases are typically used to test the arm’s length nature of a group’s intercompany pricing. By using company life cycle stages derived from cash flow patterns as an additional quantitative screening criterion, this theoretically grounded approach is able to consider the typically unobservable OECD comparability criterion business strategies. In addition to offering better comparability and increased objectivity, this approach can contribute to a significant reduction of efforts linked to qualitative review steps and, therefore, compliance costs for the taxpayer.

Closure of a local public hospital in Korea: focusing on the organizational life cycle.

Just as living organisms have a creation-maintenance-extinction life cycle, organizations also have a life cycle. Private organizations will not survive if they fail to acquire necessary resources through market competition. Public organizations, however, continue to survive because the government has provided financial support in order to enhance public interest. Only a few public organizations in Korea have closed. With the introduction of new public management since the economic crisis in 1997, however, public organizations have had to compete with private organizations. Public hospitals are not free to open or close their business. They are also controlled by the government in terms of their prices, management, budgets, and operations. As they pursue public interest by fulfilling the government’s order such as providing free or lower-priced care to the vulnerable population, they tend to provide a lower quality of care and suffer a financial burden. Employing a case study analysis, this study attempts to understand the external environment that local public hospitals face. The fundamental problem of local public hospitals in Korea is the value conflict between public interest and profitability. Local public hospitals are required to pursue public interest by assignment of a public mission including building a medical safety net for low-income patients and managing nonprofitable medical facilities and emergent health care situations. At the same time, they are required to pursue profitability by achieving high-quality care through competition and the operation of an independent, self-supporting system according to private business logic. Under such paradoxical situations, a political decision may cause an unexpected result.

Pengaruh Risiko Bisnis, Life Cycle Dan Diversifikasi Terhadap Struktur Modal Serta Hubungannya Dengan Nilai Perusahaan Manufaktur Di Indonesia

This study aims to examine the factors that affect the capital structure. The task of the financial manager is to determine the amount of capital structure to enhance shareholder value. Since the capital structure associated with firm value , this study also aimed to examine the effect of capital structure on firm value by considering the company's diversification strategy and corporate life cycle stages . By using the data obtained from the OSIRIS period 2009-2012, researchers used multiple regression test and path analysis to test the hypothesis. From the test results stated that only companies which are in the start-up phase which has a significant positive effect on the capital structure , as well as the diversification strategy has an influence on the capital structure of the company's capital structure with a sequence of related diversification > unrelated diversification > single segment. But when regressed diversification strategy with corporate values, only a single segment strategy and related diversification which significantly affect the value of the company, as well as the positive effect of capital structure on firm value. Most of the results of this study can be explained by the signaling effect and the pecking order theory.

Evaluation of the Effect of Company's Life Cycle on the Cost of Equity

The aim of this study is to investigate effect of company's life cycle on cost of stockholders , in this regard, three hypotheses were developed that a sample of 118 companies during the period of 2009 to 2015 were selected in order test them and regression model and panel data was used to analyze hypotheses. In this study, Dickinson (DeAngelo et al., 2006; Dickinson, 2011; Rahmanian, Moghaddam et al., 2014) company life cycle criteria has been used to separate companies to different steps of company life cycle and the Gordon growth model has been used to measure cost of stockholders. The results show that the cost of stockholders has significant difference with each other in mature phase of Company life cycle Compared with recession of company's life cycle. The results also show that cost of stockholders have significant difference with each other compared with recession of company's life cycle in the growth stage of companies life cycle . Finally, the results show that cost of stockholders have significant difference with each other in the Company life cycle birth and decline compared with the record of company's life cycle.

Studying the Relationship between Company Life Cycle and Cost of Equity

Studying the Relationship between Company Life Cycle and Cost of Equity

Evaluation of the Effect of Company's Life Cycle on the Cost of Equity

The aim of this study is to investigate effect of company's life cycle on cost of stockholders , in this regard, three hypotheses were developed that a sample of 118 companies during the period of 2009 to 2015 were selected in order test them and regression model and panel data was used to analyze hypotheses. In this study, Dickinson (DeAngelo et al., 2006; Dickinson, 2011; Rahmanian, Moghaddam et al., 2014) company life cycle criteria has been used to separate companies to different steps of company life cycle and the Gordon growth model has been used to measure cost of stockholders. The results show that the cost of stockholders has significant difference with each other in mature phase of Company life cycle Compared with recession of company's life cycle. The results also show that cost of stockholders have significant difference with each other compared with recession of company's life cycle in the growth stage of companies life cycle . Finally, the results show that cost of stockholders have significant difference with each other in the Company life cycle birth and decline compared with the record of company's life cycle.

Reimagining watershed restoration: a call for new investment and support structures for greater resiliency and long‐term impact

Hundreds of locally based watershed initiatives have mobilized stakeholders to take voluntary action to restore the ecological conditions of North America's watersheds. Lead organizations rely on project‐based grant funding, alignment with government programs, and volunteerism to incrementally restore what is ultimately a vast and complex ecosystem. Structurally, the vision and goals of these initiatives often exceed available resources and capacity. In 1999, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation began to test ways by which a funder might increase the capacity of local watershed organizations to achieve long‐term watershed restoration goals through a 10‐year commitment of funding and technical support. We partnered with other funders, collectively seeking solutions to increase the impact of this work. Reflecting on 13 years experience across 21 watersheds in 7 western states (USA), we have concluded that the scale of ecological change desired requires a time frame for planning, implementation, and public engagement that is inconsistent with present‐day approaches. This has left us asking how can the capacity and impact of a watershed initiative be sustained over many decades—a time frame that exceeds the tenure of any individual leader, the proven life cycles of many nonprofit organizations, and the commitment of most funders? Clear themes have emerged: (1) engaging diverse stakeholders in planning, (2) orienting the work around broader goals, (3) emphasizing human well‐being, and (4) developing resilient partnerships. Reimagining watershed restoration in this context, we suggest a new agenda for action and research that emphasizes a multidecadal planning horizon integrating climate change projections and changing demographics and social values. WIREs Water 2017, 4:e1174. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1174This article is categorized under: Water and Life > Conservation, Management, and Awareness Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance

CICLO DE VIDA ORGANIZACIONAL E ATIVOSINTANGÍVEIS DE EMPRESAS DE BASE TECNOLÓGICA INCUBADAS

Este artigo tem o propósito de investigar a relação entre os estágios do ciclo de vida organizacional das EBTIs e a estrutura de ativos intangíveis destas empresas. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa exploratório-descritiva, com abordagem quantitativa dos dados, reunindo as empresas vinculadas às incubadoras de base tecnológica cearenses, com população de 64 empresas e amostra de 41. A identificação dos estágios do ciclo de vida e o exame da estrutura de ativos intangíveis foram realizados por meio das obras de Scott e Bruce (1987) e Sveiby (1998), respectivamente. Para avaliar a relação entre as variáveis, foi aplicado o teste estatístico MANOVA; e, para uma análise mais detalhada dos dados, aplicou-se ANOVAs univariadas. Os resultados demonstram que a estrutura de ativos intangíveis das EBTIs altera-se à medida que as organizações progridem em seus estágios do ciclo de vida organizacional.

Information Content of Earnings Managements: Implications on Growth and Value Companies

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the pattern of earnings management on growth and value companies in Indonesia. This study predicts that earnings management has information contents. Therefore, earnings management tends to degrade the quality of earnings, then affect the future profitability. This study analyzes the effect of earnings management information content to the company's future profitability. This study provides an understanding about accounting information at certain market price levels for growth and value companies.
 Findings: Findings of this study indicate the differences between earnings management influence on growth and value companies. The results also support the differences of relative incremental information content of earnings management on growth and value companies. The growth firms tend to do earnings management and have higher profitability compared to the value firms. The implication is that the incremental information content of earnings management on growth firms is lower than those of the value firms to predict future profitability. 
 Implication: The contribution of this research is to provide an in-depth review on earnings management study associated with company life cycle (growth and value), as well as to give additional understanding about the existence of incremental information content of earnings management. Thus, firms show different earnings management behaviors and ultimately those behaviors affect the quality of profit to predict future earnings