Model of Cyclic Development of the Organization in the Information Space

摘要

The article considers a model of development of organization in the phase state space. The state of a real organization rarely correlates to just one of pure stages described in well-known development models, like the ones of L. Greyner or I. Adizes. Changes in organization are a result of a sum of ongoing and cyclic processes of various scale and nature. Direction of these changes depends on the current characteristics of the organizations: access time and processing time of current information, as well as the level of technologies employed. In the coordinates of these two factors, the phase state space of organization may be divided into four areas A, B, C, and D with their peculiar characteristics. Areas A and B are united by a long access time for retrieval of current information; areas C and D are characterized with a short access time for retrieval of current information; B and C (as opposed to A and D) are characterized with a high level of employed technologies. Emerging markets and low level of uncertainty of immediate environment are favorable conditions for conception of a new organization. Reaching the development cycle, the evolutionary changes of organization along the DCBA trajectory are quite well described by the development stages of previously known development models. After reaching the area A - obsolescence stage - the organization has several ways for its further development: Merger, acquisition, dissolution and return to the household level, or a quantum leap to a new level of development. The model of cyclic development allows explaining all the multitude of organizational structures and possible development trajectories.