Re-Examining Organizational Life Cycles Criteria: An Analysis of Service Organisations in Growth and Maturity Stages

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Amizawati Mohd Amir ◽  
Sofiah Md. Auzair
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycles ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Maturity Stages

Politics and Strategic Change Across Organizational Life Cycles

1985 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gray ◽  
Sonny S. Ariss
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Change ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Organizational Life

Organizational Life Cycles in Small New Zealand Wineries

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Beverland ◽  
Lawrence S. Lockshin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Organizational Life

Organizational Life Cycles in Banking

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert O. Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycles ◽  
Organizational Life

scholarly journals The Effect of Storm Life Cycle on Satellite Rainfall Estimation Error

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alemu Tadesse ◽  
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Estimation Error ◽  
Rain Gauge ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Error Statistics ◽  
Radar Rainfall ◽  
Convective Systems ◽  
Satellite Retrieval ◽  
Maturity Stages ◽  
Precipitation Estimation

Abstract The study uses storm tracking information to evaluate error statistics of satellite rain estimation at different maturity stages of storm life cycles. Two satellite rain retrieval products are used for this purpose: (i) NASA’s Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis–Real Time product available at 25-km/hourly resolution (3B41-RT) and (ii) the University of California (Irvine) Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) product available at 4-km–hourly resolution. Both algorithms use geostationary satellite infrared (IR) observations calibrated to an array of passive microwave (PM) earth-orbiting satellite sensor rain retrievals. The techniques differ in terms of algorithmic structure and in the way they use the PM rainfall to calibrate the IR rain algorithms. The satellite retrievals are evaluated against rain gauge–calibrated radar rainfall estimates over the continental United States. Error statistics of hourly rain volumes are determined separately for thunderstorm and shower-type convective systems and for different storm life durations and stages of maturity. The authors show distinct differences between the two satellite retrieval error characteristics. The most notable difference is the strong storm life cycle dependence of 3B41-RT relative to the nearly independent PERSIANN behavior. Another is in the algorithm performance between thunderstorms and showers; 3B41-RT exhibits significant bias increase at longer storm life durations. PERSIANN exhibits consistently improved correlations relative to the 3B41-RT for all storm life durations and maturity stages. The findings of this study support the hypothesis that incorporating cloud type information into the retrieval (done by the PERSIANN algorithm) can help improve the satellite retrieval accuracy.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Trends and Convergence in Research on Organizational Size and Environments

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen C. Bluedorn
Keyword(s):  
Population Ecology ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Organizational Size ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
Environment Research ◽  
Review Period ◽  
Traditional Approaches

This article reviews the research conducted on organizational size and environments from 1980 through 1992. Specifically, the environmental research based on the traditional environmental contingency model is reviewed and trends over the review period are identified. The organizational size literature is reviewed in a similar fashion. Suggestions for empirical and theoretical extensions of trends identified in both research streams a represented. An especially salient finding in the review is the emerging theoretical convergence of the size and environment research streams on the topic of organizational life cycles, which seems to particularly involve the population ecology model. Possible theoretical convergence between the institutional, population ecology, interorganizational relations, and environmental enactment perspectives and other fundamental organization theory areas (e.g., culture and strategy) are then proposed. Overall, traditional organizational size and environment research continued at a steady pace over the review period, and new approaches and perspectives, especially in the area of environment research, have developed and are surpassing the traditional approaches in the volume of research they generate.

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