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The Structuring of Organizations
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This [reading] argues that spans of control, types of formalization and decentralization, planning systems, and matrix structures should not be picked and chosen independently, the way a shopper picks vegetables at the market or a diner a meal at a buffet table.Abstract:
This [reading] argues that […] spans of control, types of formalization and decentralization, planning systems, and matrix structures should not be picked and chosen independently, the way a shopper picks vegetables at the market or a diner a meal at a buffet table. Rather, these and other parameters of organizational design should logically configure into internally consistent groupings. Like most phenomena — atoms, ants, and stars — characteristics of organizations appear to fall into natural clusters, or configurations.read more
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Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage
Janine Nahapiet,Sumantra Ghoshal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that incorporates this overall argument in the form of a series of hypothesized relationships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and proces.
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Leadership in Organizations
TL;DR: This book presents a meta-leadership framework for a post-modern view of leadership that considers the role of language, identity, and self-consistency in the development of leaders.
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Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and The Failure of Established Firms
Rebecca Henderson,Kim B. Clark +1 more
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Organizational Innovation: A Meta-Analysis Of Effects Of Determinants and Moderators
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the relationships between organizational innovation and 13 potential determinants resulted in statistically significant associations for specialization, functional differencing, and functional differences as mentioned in this paper. But, the authors did not consider the role of organizational innovation in organizational innovation.
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The Correlates of Entrepreneurship in Three Types of Firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived a crude typology of firms: Simple firms are small and their power is centralized at the top, while planning firms are big, their goal being smooth and efficient operation through the use of formal controls and plans.
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The Social Psychology of Organizations.
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A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations.
D. N. Chester,Amitai Etzioni +1 more