Style of management hardly affects the growth of a company. From my humble experience doing biz, I would say the company's ability to canvass PO's (Purchase Orders) and then make their product stand out from the rest (packaging, adding value added services w/ da product) and have a strong cash collection system is what cements a company's growth. Other factor's like management style is quite secondary to a company's growth and falls along the line of "fine tuning."

Look at Mitsubishi. Look at Toyota. Look at Toho Picture company. Look at Koei. All those firms follow a VERY strict "Zaibatsu (feudalistic)" management system and are doing quite well I would say. Zaibatsu management style orients itself towards employees who display 95 percent work / technical skills and 5 percent showmanship skills.

So if u look at such Zaibatsu styled firms, their functions would highly b centralized and employ dedicated agencies to handle their auxiliary work such as marketing, sales, packaging, ...more