EXTERNAL FORCES DRIVING CHANGE IN THE ROMANIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES

PrediÃ...Ÿcan Mariana () and Roiban Roxana Nadina ()
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PrediÃ...Ÿcan Mariana: Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Facultatea de Economie si de Administrare a Afacerilor
Roiban Roxana Nadina: Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Facultatea de Economie si de Administrare a Afacerilor

Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2012, vol. 1, issue 1, 1052-1058

Abstract: Change is a constant in everyday life confronting organizations to continuously adapt their strategy, structure, processes, and culture in order to survive and stay competitive on the market. Implementing organizational change is one of the most important skills required for managers and in the meantime the most difficult one. The forces driving change within an organization, that can be either external or internal, are those that propel a company forward towards change and in order to identify the need for change and make the proper changes, managers have to develop a tool that allows them to analyze how does the environment influence their business activities. A vision for change will clarify the directions in which the organization needs to move, starting from its current state and taking in consideration the existing opportunities and threats from the environment that allow to move to a future desired state. The purpose of this paper is to identify the concern for change in the Romanian small and medium sized enterprises by presenting and explaining the past and present influences of the main external forces that have determined the need for change in the last 3-5 years and to make recommendations about future possible changes that have to be performed by managers for a better harmonization with the environment. The research method used for this study is the interview on a sample that contains some of the most relevant SMEâ€(tm)s from the western side of Romania, from different industries. We analyzed the main external forces that had an impact on the small and medium sized enterprises and how were they generating the need for organizational change, in order to see which present and future changes are required.

Keywords: organizational change; need for change; environment; forces of change; SMEâ€(tm)s (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 M19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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