Pain of Enterprise Growth: How Startup Companies Mature (3rd Edition)

Author: Frank H. Laubach
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The author of this book utilizes the theory of corporate growth cycles, combining his research experience and consulting expertise in entrepreneurial enterprises, to elaborate on management methods for each stage of corporate growth. It introduces a series of management tools designed to alleviate the pain of corporate growth and explores how to achieve a transition from entrepreneurial enterprises to standardized management. This helps managers or entrepreneurs understand how to maintain successful business development after entrepreneurship and smoothly navigate through the various stages of corporate growth. Chinese enterprises in the market economy have demonstrated growth cycles to varying degrees. Questions such as how many stages of growth enterprises have and how to properly manage each stage have long troubled many Chinese managers and entrepreneurs. Based on growth theory and combined with management practices, this book provides detailed introductions to relevant methods and techniques that can effectively guide corporate managers or entrepreneurs to adopt the correct approaches to manage their businesses and grow them into strong enterprises.