1st ICAI 2020

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2020

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

commercial organizations in various sectors of the economy (Denisov, 2008). Especially the impacts on process models used in the development as well as on the organizational structure and collaboration of motor manufacturers and suppliers have been taken into account. The modern organizational structures, which are quite frequent nowadays, are often segmented by components. Challenges in collaboration between the development areas are the consequence, since the development of self-autonomous vehicles involves strong cross-functional dependencies (Pfeffer et al., 2019). Within the framework of earlier researches, the authors hypothesized that two basic types of organizational structures – sequential and parallel – replace each other in the process of growth as commercial organizations develop. That is, the authors proceed from the dialectical approach to the development of commercial organizations, according to which the development of commercial organizations can be described by spiral development: by transition from sequential to parallel organizational structures and then, at a new stage of development – again to sequential. This hypothesis has been proved for commercial organizations operating in the service sector in the Czech Republic – retail trade and educational activities (Bobkov et al., 2017, Bobkov et al., 2018, Bobkov et al., 2019). In this article the authors attempt to prove the hypothesis for industrial enterprises in the Czech Republic. As object of researches the enterprises on manufacture of motor vehicles have been chosen. The selection of these companies is determined by the fact that these companies belong to the industrial production sector and the high level of development of this sector in the Czech Republic (Velinov & Beranek, 2018). A total of 337 companies producing motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers as well as companies producing other transport equipment from the Albertina Gold Edition database (companies Bisnode Česká republika, a.s.) were selected for the analysis. 2. Problem Formulation and Methodology Quantitative research to identify patterns of organizational development was previously conducted by various researchers. However, Hanks, S.H., Watson, C.J., Jansen, E. and Chandler, G.N. were the closest from the point of view of the research methodology used. (Hanks et al., 1993) and G. Shirokova (Shirokova, 2008). The results of these studies and their comparison with the research carried out by the authors are described in sufficient detail in a previous paper by the authors (Bobkov et al., 2019). If we briefly describe the approaches used and the results of the research described in the works (Hanks et al., 1993, Shirokova, 2008), the selected research methodology included such stages as gathering information about the companies under research, identifying variables characterizing the structure of the organization, conducting cluster analysis by the Ward method, and interpreting the results obtained. In the opinion of the researchers themselves, the results obtained did not allow them to come to certain conclusions about the sequence of stages of development of organizations classified in different clusters. As the authors themselves pointed out, they made an attempt to empirically identify the stages of development of organizations in accordance with their classification in a cluster and then propose a model of their organizational development.

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