A growing number of companies have used joint alliances, acquisitions, and venture teams to maintain competitive advantage and respond to rapidly changing environments. But not all have been able to manage the people and design issues that ensure success.

The focus of this study was on successful, small, rapidly growing firms and on people who manage (entrepreneurs/ CEOs) or help manage (interventionists/consultants) these firms. Investigates the structural (complexity, formalization and centralization) changes that occur in firms as they move...