Research on the Evolution of Organizational Structure:Based on Different Development Stages of Enterprises

Abstract

This paper mainly focuses on the evolution of organizational structure in different development stages of Chinese manufacturing enterprises.A multi-case analysis involving three enterprises is conducted to examine how organizational structure evolves in the three status dimensions,namely specialization,standardization and centralization.We find that in the process of development from the single enterprise in the initial stage to the group development stage and the final group capital operation stage,the enterprises' organizational structure will gradually change from being composed of only production and operation departments to including departments of strategic planning,investment management,human resource management,finance,supervision and administration.The standardization of the various functional departments starts from the business class,followed by the functional class,then the cultural and strategic investment class.As for the power relation,the organizational structure changes from highly centralization to partly decentralization and finally decentralization-based law.