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.
Keywords
StructuringDecentralizationTable (database)Reading (process)Organizational structureOrganizational architectureComputer scienceControl (management)Natural (archaeology)Matrix (chemical analysis)GeographyKnowledge managementPolitical scienceManagementArtificial intelligenceEconomicsArchaeologyLawData mining
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- 1989
- Type
- book-chapter
- Pages
- 322-352
- Citations
- 4238
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Henry Mintzberg
(1989).
The Structuring of Organizations.
, 322-352.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20317-8_23
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- 10.1007/978-1-349-20317-8_23