A Relational Approach to Organization Design

摘要: The paper criticizes the currently dominant view of organization forms as “discrete alternatives” and “coherent” set attributes, proposes a more refined micro‐analytic particular combinations coordination mechanisms rights allocations. This is relevant for understanding devising “new” proposing solutions governing composite fast changing systems today. “relational” it offers procedure “superior” configurations combinations—relations between organizational components—in quasi‐continuous space possibilities. approach sustained by quantitative methods network analysis applied to relations among firm's resources activities. Theoretically, revisits design, integrating classic theory tenets with new inputs provided economics. Substantively, argued that mix much differentiated us...