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Category:Firm Studies
Table of Contents
Overview
Siren Design was founded in 2006 by Mia Feasey. The interior design firm expanded from Sydney to Melbourne and Brisbane…
Content of the firm’s business conception
• Product/service idea
• Innovativeness of the product/service idea
• Markets intended to serve
• Intended market share
• Intended firm size/growth
• Intended form of coordination
• Resources, capabilities, know-how
Firm growth
• Growth in number of employees
• Growth in number of sales
• Growth in number of assets
Firm crisis/ growth threshold
• Performance data (e.g., stagnating and declining growth rates, returns, turnovers)
Organizational structure
• Number of hierarchies
• Degree of responsibility delegation
• Ownership and/or management composition
• Number of divisions
• Formalization of reporting lines
Structural change
• Change in the number of hierarchies
• Change in the degree of responsibility delegation
• Change in the ownership and/or management composition
• Change of the number of divisions (investment or divestment)
• Change of the formalization of reporting lines
• Merger and acquisition activities
Motivation, incentive structure, human resource management practices, corporate culture
• Intensity of communication between the entrepreneurs/management and the firm members
• Intensity of communication among the top management
• Intensity of communication and interactions within divisions
• Intensity of communication and interaction across divisions
• Number of divisional meetings
• Number of cross-divisional meetings
• Extent of shared decision-making
• Intensity of control
• Financial intensive schemes
• Encouragement vs. financial incentives for coming up with ideas for technological and organizational improvement
• Cross-divisional exchange of employees
• Training
• Career tracks
• Social events
External Links
Siren Design Group’s Web Site
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