Structuring an Effective Organization to Suit Strategy

Model of stages of organizational development

Malcolm S. Salter, "Stages of 'Corporate Development," Journal of Business Policy, vol 1, no. 1 (Spring 1970), pp.23-27.

Donald H. Thain, "Stages of Corporate Development," The Business Quarterly, (Winter 1969), pp. 32-45

the underpinning of this concept is that enterprises can be arrayed along a continuum running from very simple to very complex organizational forms and tath there is a tendency for an organization to move into more complex forms as it grows in size, market coverage and product line diversity.