Organizing in the knowledge age: Anticipating the cellular form

Academy of Management Executive

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 7-19

  Miles, Raymond E ^a   Snow, Charles C ^b   Mathews, John A ^b   Miles, Grant ^b   Coleman Jr , Henry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 20444403052     PISSN: 10795545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/ame.1997.9712024836     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. For excellent accounts of the evolution of organizational forms during this period, see A.D. Chandler. Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1962); and P.R. Lawrence and D. Dyer, Blackwell, 1959). A new edition of this book, with a foreword by Professor Penrose, was published in 1995.
2. For a discussion of matrix organizations, see S.M. Davis and P.R. Lawrence, Matrix (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977).
3. For a discussion of the globalization process, see M.E. Porter, Ed., Competition in Global Industries (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1986).
4. The multifirm network organization was first identified and described by R.E. Miles and C.C. Snow, "Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame," California Management Review, 26, 3, 1984, 10-28.
5. For descriptions of the major types of network organizations used today, see R.E. Miles and C.C. Snow, Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame: How Companies Succeed or Fail (New York, NY: Free Press, 1994), chapters 7-9.
6. S. Kauffman, At Home in the Universe (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995).
7. We did not invent the cellular label. The concept of cellular structures has been discussed at least since the 1960s. For a review, see J.A. Mathews, "Holonic Organisational Architectures," Human Systems Management, 15, 1996, 1-29.
8. J.A Mathews, "TCG R&D Networks: The Triangulation Strategy," Journal of Industry Studies, 1, 1993, 65-74.
9. J.A. Mathews and C.C. Snow, "The Expansionary Dynamics of the Latecomer Multinational Firm: The Case of The Acer Group," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, forthcoming.
10. M. Zeleny, "Amoebae: The New Renewing American Industry (New York, NY: Free Press, 1983).
11. A discussion of "excess managerial capacity" as the engine of corporate growth can be found in E.T. Penrose, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (Oxford, England: Basil Generationof Self-Managing Human Systems," Human Systems Management, 9, 1990, 57-59.
12. L. Kolind, "Creativity at Oticon," Fast Company, 1996, 5-9.
13. R. Semler, Maverick (New York, NY: Time Warner Books, 1993).
14. I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995).
15. Many of these experiments will involve various forms of strategic alliances and/or joint ventures. See A.C. Inkpen, "Creating Knowledge Through Collaboration," California Management Review, 39, 1996, 123-140.
16. J.A. Mathews and C.C. Snow, "A Conversation with Taiwan-based Acer Group's Stan Shih on Global Strategy," Organizational Dynamics, Summer 1998.
17. G.E. Forward, D.E. Beach, D.A. Gray, and J.C. Quick, "Mentofacturing: A Vision for American Industrial Excellence," The Academy of Management Executive, 5, 1991, 32-44.
18. Penrose, The Academy of Management Executive, op cit.;
19. R. Likert, The Human Organization (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1967);
20. and J. Pfeffer, Competitive Advantage Through People (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1994).
21. For an example of a firm that seriously and creatively attempted to calculate the value of its intellectual capital and other intangible assets, see L. Edvinsson and M.S. Malone, Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 1997).