Optimal Growth Strategy in a Research Organization

Abstract

For a balanced growth of research organization, an interdependence of size, structure, functions and supporting facilities is an imperative need. This balance is often threatened during the process of growth with the result that the quantity of work suffers. The paper presents a theoretical outline of a model that can be used for the study of growth process in research organizations and thus help research planners and laboratory directors in arriving at decision relating to the development of specialized support facilities for research and integrating these facilities into a single, viable unit through proper structural changes in the organizational set-up.