Ensuring the survival of a business threatened with bankruptcy as the primary goal of allostatic action and its implications (case study)

• Authors: Bursiak Leszek

Title variants

PL

Zapewnienie przetrwania przedsiębiorstwa zagrożonego bankructwem jako główny cel działania allostatycznego i jego implikacje (studium przypadku)

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper provides an overview of the research on ensuring the survival of a business threatened with bankruptcy (in the recent past) as the primary goal of allostatic action and its implications. There was implemented a very specific procedure of diagnosing and positioning organizational situation represented by Entrepreneur FOGT’s business during a particular period of time from 2014 to 2018. This research procedure is focused on year 2018, but years from 2014 to 2017 provide the necessary background for the whole study. The organizational situation of researched business is determined by a recognized level of organizational effectiveness or potential ineffectiveness caused by dysfunctions. The diagnosis is based on qualitative, long lasted depth analysis of the organizational situation of the researched company by means of the author’s own implement named „The Business Life Cycle Model of Organizational Effectiveness Influenced by Dysfunctions”. The measuring instrument (grading system) of this model is used to introduce the outcomes of the research work. All such way collected outcomes of each individual diagnosis gives the picture of overall organizational performance of given company annually, during the whole period of the research. The outcomes are adequately visualized on an appropriate scale, making the most of the model.

PL

Artykuł zawiera przegląd badań nad zapewnieniem przetrwania firmy zagrożonej bankructwem jako głównego celu działania allostatycznego. W toku badań prowadzono bardzo specyficzną procedurę diagnozowania i pozycjonowania sytuacji organizacyjnej reprezentowanej przez firmę FOGT w okresie od 2014 do 2018 roku. Przedmiotowa procedura badawcza koncentruje się w szczególności na roku 2018, jednak zaprezentowane wyniki badań obejmujące lata 2014–2017 stanowią niezbędne tło dla podkreślenia empirycznych walorów całego badania. Sytuacja organizacyjna badanego biznesu jest zdeterminowana przez osiągany (zdiagnozowany) poziom skuteczności organizacyjnej lub potencjalną nieskuteczność spowodowaną dysfunkcjami. Diagnoza opiera się na jakościowej, długotrwałej, dogłębnej analizie sytuacji organizacyjnej badanej firmy za pomocą autorskiego narzędzia o nazwie „Model sprawnościowo-dysfunkcyjnego cyklu życia organizacji”. Przyrząd pomiarowy (system oceny) tego modelu jest wykorzystywany do wprowadzania wyników realizowanych prac badawczych. Tak zebrane wyniki każdej indywidualnej diagnozy dają obraz ogólnego poziomu sprawności organizacyjnej danej firmy rocznie, przez cały okres badań. Wyniki te są wizualizowane na odpowiedniej skali, co pozwala w pełni wykorzystać możliwości diagnostyczne model.

Keywords

EN

homeostasis; allostasis; allostatic action; ensuring the survival; failure; bankruptcy; business life cycle; diagnosing; organizational; situation; organizational effectiveness

PL

homeostaza; allostaza; działanie allostatyczne; zapewnienie przetrwania; niepowodzenie; bankructwo; cykl życia organizacji; diagnoza; sytuacja organizacyjna; dysfunkcje; sprawność organizacyjna

• Publisher: Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu w Szczecinie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe ZPSB Firma i Rynek
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 1(55)
• Pages: 17-38

Contributors

author

Bursiak Leszek

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