Publisher's Synopsis
This text presents methods and examples on organizational structure using empirical literature to describe how organizations structure themselves. It discusses the nature of managerial work, the strategy formation process and issues associated with each type of structure. It highlights each element of structure and situation in a separate chapter, and then synthesizes these in term of four basic configurations - simple structure; machine bureaucracy; divisionalized form; and adhocracy. It also provides a new way to handle the issue of decentralization.
