If the organisation and the entrepreneur can adopt more formal systems of management, there will be
a basis for further growth through direction. This period of growth will last for a considerable period
if the organisation is growing slowly, but will be short-lived for the rapidly growing organisation. In
both cases a crisis situation will eventually arise, because the organisation has reached a size where the
slowness and costs of making decisions in a centralised way through the formal hierarchy are proving
to be major stumbling blocks: there is a crisis of autonomy.