Organizational form

This section assesses the dmg regulatory authorities of the 10 countries from the perspective of organizational stmcture, particularly organizational forms, human resources and financing. 

Joyce, W, McGee, V., Slocum, J. 1997. Designing lateral organizations an analysis of the benefits, costs, and enablers of nonhierarchical organizational forms. Decision Sciences, 28 1-26. 

Architectural innovation and modular organizational forms. Academy of Management journal. Special Research Forum on New and Evolving Organizational Forms, 44(6) 1229-1249. 

The term spread sheet refers to the row and column organizational form of the input and output of the software. Key features of spread-sheet software that are necessary or desirable for engineering problem solving include ... 

The most important task here is to insure that the new company becomes functional as quickly and as smoothly as possible. It is, therefore, essential to decide as soon as possible what has to be done, how it has to be done, and who is responsible. Thus, the new organizational form must be selected at a very early stage, management personnel has to be selected fairly and quickly, and responsibilities must be allocated to the relevant managers selected. 

Choosing a new organizational form is not a problem when the companies involved already have a similar structure. But where they differ, a single structure has to be chosen for the new business, and that is not always easy. 

A. Muller, E. Krickemeyer, H. Bogge, M. Schmidtmann, and E. Peters, Organizational forms of matter an inorganic super fullerene and keplerate based on molybdenum oxide, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 37 3360(1998). 

A.Muller, E. Krickemeyer, H. Bogge, M. Schmidtmann, F. Peters, Organizational forms ofmatter-an... 

The development of custom applications is generally expensive and is often plagued by uncertainties, such as the duration of the development cycle or the difficulty of assessing costs. Thus, the tendency to shift software development from individual development to an organizational form of industrial manufacturing—in software factories — is not surprising. 

Brickley, J.A. and F.H. Dark, The Choice Of Organizational Form The Case Of Franchising, Journal of Financial Economics, 18 (1987), 401-420. 

Modularization in enterprise leads, thus, to the disaggregation of the traditional form of hierarchical governance. The enterprise is decomposed into relatively small autonomous organizational units (modules) to reduce complexity and to integrate strongly interdependent tasks while the interdependencies between the modules are weak. The dissemination of modular organizational forms yields a strong process... 

Johnson, J. D. and Chang, H. J. (2000), "Internal and external communication, boundary spanning, and innovation adoption An over-time comparison of three explanations of internal and external innovation communication in a new organizational form," Journal of Business Communication, 37 (3), 238-63. 

Figure 2. Organizational forms and entailed forms of power.

Mahoney, J.T., 1992. The choice of organizational form vertical ownership versus other methods of vertical integration. Strategic Management Journal 13, 559-584. 

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