The vital role of early identification of the urgent need to take decisive allostatic action for business survival (case study)

• Authors: Bursiak Leszek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this article is to present the summary of studies accomplished under a research project concerning the vital role of early identification of the urgent need to take decisive allostatic action for business survival. This paper provides an overview of the research on early identification of the urgent need to take decisive allostatic action for business survival. There was implemented a very specific procedure of diagnosing and positioning organizational situation represented by FOGT business during a particular period of time from 2015 to 2017. The organizational situation of researched company 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.

Keywords

EN

homeostasis; allostasis; allostatic action; organization; success; failure; survival; growth; change; business life cycle; diagnosing; organizational situation; organizational effectiveness

• Publisher: Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu w Szczecinie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe ZPSB Firma i Rynek
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(54)
• Pages: 105-118

Dates

published

2018-12-14

Contributors

author

Bursiak Leszek

• Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu

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Identifiers

ISSN

2657-3245