Organizational Design for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Author: Xiang Wei
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book primarily explores the organizational design issues of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially high-tech companies during their early stages of entrepreneurship. The content includes: the objectives, principles, theories, and methods of organizational design for SMEs; the general process of organizational design for SMEs, as well as the key stages and influencing factors; organizational design approaches suitable for the characteristics of SMEs; the development of organizational forms for SMEs and the management of organizational change. This book primarily explores the organizational design issues of small and medium-sized enterprises, especially high-tech companies during their early stages of entrepreneurship. Chapter 1 introduces the fundamental aspects of organizational design for SMEs, including objectives, principles, theories, and methods, and focuses on the relationship between the scale of SMEs and their property rights organizational forms. Chapter 2 introduces the general process of organizational design for SMEs and analyzes its key stages and influencing factors. Chapters 3 to 7 explore various aspects of organizational design for SMEs using a five-dimensional framework system, presenting organizational design approaches suitable for their characteristics from the perspective of SMEs. Chapters 8 and 9 provide respective introductions to the development of organizational forms for SMEs and the management of organizational change.