La création d’une dynamique durable d’hypercroissance

Cécile Chanut-Guieu (), Gilles Guieu (), Franck Tannery () and Leo Dana
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Cécile Chanut-Guieu: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gilles Guieu: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Franck Tannery: COACTIS - COnception de l'ACTIon en Situation - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne

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Abstract: When the firm is undergoing hyper-growth (doubling its size in four years), this exacerbated development is characterized by numerous tensions. The notion of paradox allows for a positive understanding of the tensions of the growing company. How can a firm continue to grow and to renew itself without losing its balance? Through the longitudinal and multi-method analysis of the make-up of a medium-sized firm, we identify several dynamics that generate hyper-growth: (i) sustaining the pace of growth; (ii) extending strategic space; (iii) configurating the organization's SBUs; and (iv) transforming the strategic thought of the leader. These four represent the same dual structure: the dominant logic stabilizes and balances the action, whereas paradoxical tensions de-stabilize and question the action.

Keywords: Medium-size firm; growth; paradox; dominant logic; ETI; croissance; paradoxe; logique dominante (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2018, 44 (271), pp.47-66. ⟨10.3166/rfg.2017.00180⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2017.00180

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