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Every company in the course of its existence faces a number of barriers to its further growth. In some situations, the company is not able to continue to grow, or a further increase may even become the cause of its downfall. Considerations carried out in the paper show that the way to overcome such barriers can be “disintegration” and transformation of the company into business group. The creation of the business group seems to be a natural stage in the evolution of the company, considered in terms of increasing its size and complexity.