| La Brecha en la Cúspide: El Vacío en la Gerencia Media como Límite al Crecimiento de las PyMEs |
| Written by Harald Solaas |
| Tuesday, 09 January 2007 19:00 |
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(The Gap at The Top: The Middle-Management Void as a Limit to The Growth of Small Entrepreneurial Organizations) Precis A paper presented at the IX Congreso de la Pequena y Mediana Empresa, sponsored by the Conejo Profesional de Ciencias Economicas de la Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2006. This paper deals with the difficulties encountered by the founder of a small business with a Current Potential Capability of Stratum IV or higher, when company growth demands a large amount of work at Stratum III that he or she is forced to do personally. The entrepreneur does not focus this new problem properly and fails to provide adequate solutions for it. Discontent spreads, unnecessary errors are continuously made, opportunities are lost and further growth becomes difficult. In consulting work with small companies in Argentina, we have repeatedly found this problem in small companies of all kinds. We present here our analysis of this typical problem and the responses to it. |
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