Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · February 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic created significant challenges for healthcare professionals and the provision of hospital care, leading to immense stress and rapidly changing conditions. Hospitals had to constantly adapt their organizational structures and strategie ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organization Design · March 1, 2024
AI robot bosses are becoming increasingly prevalent in organizations, and they expand the traditional organizational design space. Organizations can benefit from utilizing both robots and humans as bosses, as they can substitute for each other and work tog ...
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Journal ArticleComputational and Mathematical Organization Theory · March 1, 2021
Diversification involves ongoing decisions about firm boundaries and relatedness. We develop a theoretical model that uses a real-option framework combined with optimal mechanism design to analyze how choices of boundaries and relatedness affect firm perfo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organization Design · December 1, 2018
We investigate the idea that firms’ choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm—uncertainty and controversy. In doing so, we investigate boundary conditions between argumen ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organization Design · December 1, 2018
Organization design is a major factor determining an organization’s performance and how the people work together in these organizations. In the paper, we argue that designing organizations should be scientific-based and forward-looking. This raises challen ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · June 1, 2018
Rather than introducing radical new “grand theory” paradigms, most theory contributions in strategic management extend, clarify, or apply received theories in new and interesting ways. Here we offer a guide on how to make these kinds of contributions to th ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Organization Design · December 1, 2017
In this edition of the organizational zoo series, we take a closer look at an interesting organization design case—GitHub, a software company from California. Similar to Valve, the subject of the previous article in the series (Puranam and Håkonsson, J Org ...
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Journal ArticleOrganizational Research Methods · April 1, 2017
All methods individually are flawed, but these limitations can be mitigated through mixed methods research, which combines methodologies to provide better answers to our research questions. In this study, we develop a research design framework for mixed me ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · June 1, 2016
We analyze performance and emotions as antecedents and consequences of team strategic decisions to explore a new routine versus exploiting an existing one. In a laboratory study, we examine team decision making over time and draw causal inferences about th ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in psychology · January 2016
Self-interest vs. cooperation is a fundamental dilemma in animal behavior as well as in human and organizational behavior. In organizations, how to get people to cooperate despite or in conjunction with their self-interest is fundamental to the achievement ...
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Journal ArticleComputational and Mathematical Organization Theory · August 15, 2015
In this study, we use a series of computational models to investigate an information processing perspective on organizational control use. We evaluate and compare the information processing capabilities of various formal and informal control configurations ...
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Journal ArticleComputational and Mathematical Organization Theory · March 1, 2013
Knowledge of near misses is helpful in preventing accidents, but it does not always lead to changes in organizational routines or contribute to accident prevention. In this article, the authors argue that low-probability near misses reinforce beliefs of ex ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
Based on three case studies we investigate the issue of inter-organizational learning coordination throughout the evolution of the strategic alliance. We imply that alliances should be designed to learn, and alliance partners’ choices about mechanisms of c ...
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Journal ArticleLong Range Planning · April 1, 2012
We examine how and when executive style affects strategy implementation in Danish Small and Medium Size Enterprises SMEs. We propose a framework that allows a simple diagnosis of executive style and strategy implementation, and we then measure and assess t ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · September 1, 2011
In this essay, we examine what-is, what-might-be, and what-should-be computational models where the purpose is to explore new concepts, ideas, boundaries, and limitations going beyond what we know at the moment. Computational models complement well with ot ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal · September 1, 2011
Research concerning diversification and specialization of venture capital funds typically does not consider how a VC's effort might influence performance of different portfolios. We develop a model that analyzes VC effort when there is the potential for cr ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · July 1, 2011
This study examines how designing for product development influences project performance in distinct technological environments. Drawing on a series of computational experiments and paired-case comparisons of six product development projects, we specifical ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part A Systems and Humans · May 1, 2011
Fit represents a central concept for organizational design, but extant research maintains a static focus on fit, a focus that is incommensurate with the fundamentally dynamic nature of organizations and their environments. Most key organizational environme ...
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Journal ArticleComputational and Mathematical Organization Theory · August 5, 2010
Does virtuality in organizations require centralization or decentralization? We specify the coordination and information processing requirements for virtual organizing in order to examine how these requirements are met by centralized and decentralized stru ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Leadership Studies · December 1, 2008
A leader's job is often to attempt achieving organizational alignment. Many theories propose climate as an effective means to help leaders carry out this task. Nevertheless, our understanding of which exact actions are needed to manage climate remains some ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Decision · April 18, 2008
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate how misalignments between the organizational climate (measured as information-processing demand) and the leadership style (measured as information-processing capability) may result in negative performan ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · March 1, 2006
The challenge for NASA's Systems Analysis Integrated Discipline Team (SAIDT) is to develop a new organization design capable of performing complex modeling and analysis tasks, using team members at various NASA centers. The focus is on: (1) design as a pro ...
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Book · January 1, 2006
In today's volatile business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. All the key aspects of o ...
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Journal ArticleHuman Resource Management · March 1, 2004
A firm's organizational climate - its degree of trust, morale, conflict, rewards equity, leader credibility, resistance to change, and scapegoating - helps determine its success. Likewise, organizational strategy - the firm's commitment to capital investme ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · January 1, 2002
We develop a rule-based contingency misfit model and related hypotheses to test empirically the Burton and Obel (1998) multicontingency model for strategic organizational design. The model is a set of "if-then" misfit rules, in which misfits lead to a loss ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · January 1, 2002
American universities are experimenting with new mechanisms for promoting the commercialization of academic research and generating revenue from university intellectual property. This paper discusses mechanisms available to universities in managing the com ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Technology Transfer · December 1, 2001
This paper examines the influences of university organizational structure on technology transfer performance. The analysis treats the organizational structure of the technology-transfer office as an independent variable that accounts, in part, for measured ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · January 1, 1996
Organization theory is a positive science; organizational design is a normative science "concerned with how things ought to be, with devising structures to attain goals." The Organizational Consultant is a knowledge base expert system to help design organi ...
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Journal ArticleComputational and Mathematical Organization Theory · October 1, 1995
Computational models are widely applied to address fundamental and practical issues in organization science. Yet, computational modeling in organization science continues to raise questions of validity. In this paper, we argue that computational validity i ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · January 1, 1994
The generalizability of management science was investigated, in the light of the glaring absence of a universally accepted language and shared definitions that could be a basis of a universal contingency management theory. A review of 11 papers dealing wit ...
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Journal ArticleScandinavian Journal of Management · January 1, 1991
The relationship between organizational size and performance has long been of interest. Size, however, has been defined and measured in global ways, resulting in few (if any) unequivocal findings. Three specific dimensions of size-as measured by the number ...
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Journal ArticleComputers and Operations Research · January 1, 1989
In organizational design, the decentralized multidivisional firm has choice in the generation and use of information for budgetary planning. In this research we investigate the use of four historical information categories for the efficient determination o ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization · January 1, 1988
Opportunism is one central premise of the M-form hypothesis. This premise is investigated in a laboratory experiment using M-form and U-form organizations under incentives based on corporate profit and divisional profits. There was greater opportunism unde ...
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Journal ArticleTechnovation · January 1, 1988
Change is the constancy in today's business environment. Steering is an approach and attitude to cope with continuing change. Steering goes beyond control to incorporate the need to evaluate, constantly, goals as well as activities. Steering is a higher le ...
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Journal ArticleTechnovation · January 1, 1988
Strategic planning is art as well as science. Clinical analysis of Burroughs Wellcome Co. provides us with insight and understanding of the process. A number of themes are developed in this paper, with implementation as the first order of concern, since it ...
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Journal ArticleTechnovation · January 1, 1986
Deregulation is a fact for many industries throughout Europe and North America. The nature of the regulatory environment has changed and that change calls for new business strategies and new forms of organization to cope with and to capitalize on new oppor ...
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Journal ArticleTechnovation · January 1, 1986
In the face of rapidly changing environmental and market conditions, maintenance of a 'business-as-usual' attitude by managers is an extremely risky approach to managing products and services on an on-going basis. As an alternative approach to the post-int ...
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Journal ArticleTechnovation · January 1, 1986
Traditional strategic planning attempts to answer "What should a firm plan to do?". We propose an alternative approach and question "What should a firm plan to be able to do?". It is not a play on words, but rather a control approach to strategic planning ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Policy Analysis and Information Systems · January 1, 1982
Organization structures and market structures are logical orders imposed on segments of the universe. The boundaries between an organization structure and its markets are best defined in terms of such logical orders and segments. Since the logical order an ...
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Journal ArticleTheory and Decision · December 1, 1980
The logic of linking an organization's cooperative market relations and its internal organization structure is developed. The model permits one to simultaneously consider the best match of the environment and the most efficient internal structure. It is th ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · April 1980
Organizations have a choice of information and planning procedures to use for a coordinated plan. In this paper, we investigate the efficacy of price and/or budget planning approaches, where the first proposal can be determined from a combination ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · January 1, 1980
The microeconomic theory of the firm encompasses classical marginal analysis and modern operations research techniques. Yet, one finds a paucity of explicit application of microeconomics to corporate planning. In this paper we explore the reasons for the s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Operational Research Society · January 1, 1979
In managerial finance, the short run usually refers to multiperiod models which involve operating plans and cash flow analysis. Long-run models are for capital investment or capital budgeting. Their essential link is the emphasis on cash flow and budgets. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Operational Research Society · 1979
In managerial finance, the short run usually refers to multiperiod models which involve operating plans and cash flow analysis. Long-run models are for capital investment or capital budgeting. Their essential link is the emphasis on cash flow and budgets. ...
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Journal ArticleLong Range Planning · January 1, 1979
This paper discusses the marketing concept and its impact on the strategy and structure of the business organization. The popular dictum that every firm should implement the marketing concept in its extreme form is challenged. Considerations of the overall ...
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Journal ArticleOmega · January 1, 1979
Planning for an economic enterprise can be dichotomized into short-run production planning and longer-run investment planning. Usually these problems are treated as if they were separate, if not independent. This paper briefly reviews the separate approach ...
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Journal ArticleUrban Systems · January 1, 1978
Current methods for providing analytic support for public policy choices provide a severely limited basis for decisions by the legislative branch. The executive branch currently dominates the system in that it employs most of the analytical talent, maintai ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics of Planning · January 1, 1978
No one approach is best along all of the four dimensions. The price approach maintains feasibility, where the other two do not necessarily. The quantity approach is coordinable where the other two are not necessarily (and, the price approach only in trivia ...
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Journal ArticleOmega · January 1, 1977
This paper critically reviews the progress and state of multilevel decomposition models for the firm and its management. The presentation introduces and summarizes the fundamental ideas and also gives concise statements concerning advanced developments. Th ...
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Journal ArticleBehavioral science · November 1976
The advantages of clinical and mechanical combination of observations for prediction are mutually reinforced by an application of Bayesian statistics. The technique is shown to be particularly advantageous in a situation which is characterized by a paucity ...
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Journal ArticleOmega · January 1, 1976
A linear model is used as the vehicle for analyzing some of the interactions between an organization's cooperative market relations (product forms) and its structure (decomposition and coordination). Normative implications for organizational choice, and a ...
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Journal ArticleInterfaces · August 1975
This paper describes the procedure used to estimate transition probabilities from a combination of expert judgment and empirical evidence using a Bayesian model. The matrix of transition probabilities (called the Technology Matrix) represents the ...
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Journal ArticleDecision Sciences · January 1, 1974
Two distinctively different decomposition algorithms have been developed. Both are analagous to decentralized decision making in the firm. One essentially deals with the allocation of corporate resources by the use of transfer prices charged to the divisio ...
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Journal ArticleOperational Research Quarterly · January 1, 1972
This paper surveys the turnover of staff in Operational Research groups. It suggests that surveys based on the membership of the Operational Research Society may be misleading as the majority of O. R. scientists do not belong to the Society. The paper give ...
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Journal ArticleEngineering Economist · January 1, 1971
Decision rules for the make-buy decision most often assume the form of single-item, incremental cost rules which, for application, require decisions to be made for each item in isolation from all others. While it has been recognized that such decision rule ...
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