Print Email Facebook Twitter Organisational blueprints for growth in service firms Title Organisational blueprints for growth in service firms Author Post, D. Van der Meer, J.D. Hammer, M.H.M. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Product Innovatie Management Date 2015-09-01 Abstract Start-ups and Smaller and Medium sized Enterprises are vital for national economies. The vast majority of these enterprises can be found in services industries. One of the parameters to measure performance of a company is growth. Only a very small percentage of these enterprises find ways to sustainable growth. Little is known on models for making a service firm grow. Based on our extensive literature study and in-depth analyses of 7 cases in the Dutch service industry we came to 5 distinct models or blueprints for growth and a framework on how to decide which model is best suited for the specific situation of a specific firm. Yet many research has to be done to give the final answer to the main question of our study “What kind of organisational blueprint is best suited for growing your company successfully?” Subject service firmsgrowthorganisational modelstructureculture To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0b2b50de-90e3-4432-9ea7-c4d3a1832662 ISSN 2247-0514 Source On-line Journal Modelling the New Europe, (16), 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 324858.pdf 771.07 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0b2b50de-90e3-4432-9ea7-c4d3a1832662/datastream/OBJ/view