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A Chemistry of Organization: Combinatory Structural Analysis and Design
This paper is a response to the call for models of organization design as a science revealing the inner composition of organization and specifying the laws to be respected when crafting it. It maintains that the needed science is a chemistry of organization, addressing the combination of 'organizational elements' playing a role analogous to that of chemical elements in composing a variety of substances. Drawing both on classic organization design theory and on configurational and complementarity-based approaches, the paper specifies a set of basic organizational elements and a set of combinatory laws regulating their effective combinations. Testable propositions are derived on the necessary and sufficient conditions that the composition of organizations should have respect for achieving high levels of efficiency and innovation. These propositions are tested empirically on a sample of firms, using an innovative application of Boolean algebra
Complexity Theory for a New Managerial Paradigm: A Research Framework
In this work, we supply a theoretical framework of how organizations
can embed complexity management and sustainable development into their policies
and actions. The proposed framework may lead to a new management paradigm,
attempting to link the main concepts of complexity theory, change management,
knowledge management, sustainable development, and cybernetics. We highlight
how the processes of organizational change have occurred as a result of the move to
adapt to the changes in the various global and international business environments
and how this transformation has led to the shift toward the present innovation
economy. We also point how organizational change needs to deal with sustainability,
so that the change may be consistent with present needs, without compromising
the future
Technoeconomic and Structural Correlates of Organizational Culture: An Integrative Framework
Coupled Search Processes: Why is it so Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters?
Understanding responses to supply chain disruptions : Insights from information processing and resource dependence perspectives
Why, how, and under what conditions do firms respond to supply chain disruptions? These are important questions, given that firms around the world are increasingly exposed to disruptions that impede their supply chain relationships and associated operations. This study applies information processing and resource dependence perspectives to identify the repertoire of strategic responses to supply chain disruptions and to devise and test a model that explains the occurrence of the alternative responses. The findings suggest that these responses are shaped by the "stability motive" and by "interpretative postures," which evolve from past experiences