STRATEGY AND THE DESIGN OF ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE

摘要

Design choices about an organization's architecture represent some of the most powerful strategic levers available to the top management of the modern corporation. However, we know surprisingly little about the antecedents and consequences of those choices. We accept that optimal design choice is contingent on environmental and internal fit considerations, but we suggest that the precise connections need revisiting. Most of the theoretical knowledge base in this area is decades old, but this situation has begun to change due to conceptual and methodological innovations in the study of organizations in recent years. This special issue offers an opportunity to build on these developments and offer significant, new advances.