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The aim of this study is to map the evolution of logistics organization in companies along their lifecycle. According to our hypothesis different configurations of logistics organization appear at the different periods of companies’ life. For the purpose of this study we used Larry E. Greiner’s organizational growth model, which was first published in 1972, and actualized in 1998 by the author and the model for logistics organization of D. J. Bowersox et al., published in 2002. We drew a parallel between the two models using the similarities of the corresponding stages of development. We tested the parallelism on a sample of 97 Hungarian companies from the industrial and commercial sectors. We assigned each sample company to a stage of the Greiner model using a fuzzy classification method, then we analyzed the characteristics of logistics organizations for each growth stage. The results of the empirical analysis supported the parallelism between the two models. It can be used as a basis for further studies in this topic and also in practice for management consulting in the fields of organizational development and logistics.

A synthetized model of development of logistics organization and company lifecycle