Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design.
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 3 (3), 613-624
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1978.4305791
Abstract
Concepts of uncertainty and information processing are used to integrate the diverse organization design/structure literatures. This approach more fully explicates the concept of congruence which lies at the heart of contingency ideas. The review suggests a contingency approach to design which develops a feasible set of structural alternatives from which the organization can choose.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
- Determinants of Coordination Modes within OrganizationsAmerican Sociological Review, 1976
- Environmental Uncertainty: The Construct and Its ApplicationAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1975
- A Task Contingent Model of Work-Unit StructureAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1974
- Mass Output Orientation of Operations Technology and Organizational StructureAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1974
- Task Type and Information Transfer in a Government Research LaboratoryHuman Relations, 1973
- Influence of Environmental Support and Policy Space on Organizational BehaviorAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1973
- Communication Network Research: An Examination of ControversiesHuman Relations, 1972
- Technology and Organizational Structure: A Reexamination of the Findings of the Aston GroupAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1972
- Organization Structure and CommunicationsAmerican Sociological Review, 1971
- Organizational Interdependence and Intra-Organizational StructureAmerican Sociological Review, 1968