建立一个可持续高增长的初创公司管理系统可以作为一个加速器外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 原文 Building Sustainable High-Growth Startup Companies:Management Systems as an Accelerator Material Source:California Management Review Vol.52,No.3 Spring 2010 Author: Antonio Davila；George Foster Many companies founded with enthusiasm and hope for high growth fail to meet their fonuders’and investors’expectations.Based on our research over the past decade(see Appendix A),one explanation for this underperformance is the entrepreneur’s resistance to switching to a more structured management approach and adopting management systems and processes in a timely way. Mangement systems are technically defined in the literature as:＂formal,information-based routines and proceduers managers use to maintain or alter paterns in organization activities.”A small company can be run on a personal basis in its inaugural days. The founder-CEO typically wears multiple hats and controls all aspects of her workplace.She can observe everything that goes on in the organization and makes all the important decisions.The corporate mission and chosen strategy can be effectively conveyed and reinforced through direct communication with each employee.As the company grows,however,this management style inevitably fails.The combination of growth and a personal management style can be deadly.The manager of one of the companies in our research provided a rule of thumb to the limits of a personal management style:＂We had management by personality and it become evident that wouldn’t scale.We figured our personalities can go through one floor and walls.After that management by personality doesn’t work anymore.＂ Growth requires drastic change in how the company is run.A manager in a telecom service startup company decribed this situation as follows: “Looking back at it,and comparing it to other companies I’ve been working for,I think the toughest step for a company to go though is going from a small company where pretty much everyone knows the main goals,the main focus,and the main initiatives wi