Types of complementarity, combinative organization forms and structural heterogeneity: Beyond discrete structural alternatives

Corporate Governance, Organization and the Firm: Co-operation and Outsourcing in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 63-86

  Grandori, Anna ^a   Furnari, Santi ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890697325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781848446120.00012     Document Type: Chapter

References (50)

1. Blair, M. (1995), Ownership and control: Rethinking corporate governance for the 21st Century, Washington DC: Broolings Institute.
2. Blau, P.M and B.R. Scott (1962), Formal organizations: A comparative approach, San Francisco: Chandler.
3. Boland, R.J. and F. Collopy (2004), Managing as Designing, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
4. Brusoni, S. (2005), ‘The limits to specialization: problem solving and coordination in modular networks’, Organization Studies, 26 (12), 1885-907.
5. Burns, T. and G.M. Stalker (1961), The Management of Innovation, London, Tavistock Publications.
6. Doty, H.D., W.H. Glick and G.P. Huber (1993), ‘Fit, equifinality, and organizational effectiveness: a test of two configurational theories’, Academy of Management Journal, 36 (6), 1196-250.
7. Fiske, A.P. (1992), ‘The four elementary forms of sociality: framework for a unified theory of social relations’, Psychological Review, 99, 689-723.
8. Fiss, P.C. (2007), ‘A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations’, Academy of Management Review, 32 (4), 1180-98.
9. Foss, N.J. (2007), ‘The emerging knowledge governance approach: challenges and characteristics’, Organization, 14 (1), 29-52.
10. Furnari, S. (2007), ‘Modeling multidimensional fit through Boolean algebra: new methods for combinative organization design’, in Luigi E. Golzio and Tommaso M. Fabbri (eds), ‘Relazioni di Lavoro e Forme Organizzative: Nuovi Modelli Progettuali’, Rome, Italy: Carrocci, pp. 19-38.
11. Grandori, A. (1997), ‘Governance structures, coordination mechanisms and cognitive models’, Journal of Management and Governance, 1 (1), 29-47.
12. Grandori, A. (1999), Organizzazione e Comportamento Economico, Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino; English edn (2001), Organization and Economic Behavior, London: Routledge.
13. Grandori, A. (forthcoming), ‘Poliarchic governance and the growth of knowledge’, in Nicolai J. Foss and S. Michailova (eds), Knowledge Governance, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
14. Grandori, A. and G. Soda (2006), ‘A relational approach to organization design’, Industry and Innovation, 13 (2), 151-72.
15. Grandori, A. and S. Furnari (2008), ‘A chemistry of organization: combinatory analysis and design’, Organization Studies, 29 (2), 315-41.
16. Gresov, C. and R. Drazin (1997), ‘Equifinality: functional equivalence in organization design’, Academy of Management Review, 22 (2), 403-28.
17. Gouldner, A.W. (1954), Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy, NewYork: The Free Press.
18. Harrison, J.S. and E.R. Freeman (2004), ‘Democracy in and around organizations’, Academy of Management Executive, 18 (3), 49-53.
19. Hirschman, A.O. (1970), Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
20. Hofstede, G. (1980), Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values, London: Sage Publications.
21. Ichniowski, C., S.Kathryn and G. Prennushi (1997), ‘The effects of human resource management practices on productivity: a study of steel finishing lines’, American Economic Review, 87 (3), 291-313.
22. Kilduff, M. and S. Sawyer (2003), Economizing on Bounded Rationality: Networking Through the Machine in Extreme High Reliability Software Production, Copenhagen: EGOS Colloquium.
23. Kogut, B. and U. Zander (1996), ‘What firms do? Coordination, identity and learning’, Organization Science, 7 (5), 502-18.
24. Lammers, C. and G. Széll (1989), Organizational Democracy: Taking Stock. International Handbook of Participation in Organizations, vol. I, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
25. Laursen, K. and V. Mahnke (2001), ‘Knowledge strategies, firm types and complementarity in human resource practices’, Journal of Management and Governance, 5 (1), 1-22.
26. Lawrence, P. and J. Lorsch (1967), Organization and environment, Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
27. Marturana, H.R. and F.J. Varela (1980), Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, London: Springer.
28. March, L. (ed.) (1976), The Architecture of Form, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
29. Mariotti, S. and G. Cainarca (1986), ‘The evolution of transaction governance in the textile-clothing industry’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 7, 351-74.
30. Meyer, A.D., A.S. Tsui and C.R. Hinings (1993), ‘Configurational approaches to organizational analysis’, Academy of Management Journal, 36 (6), 1175-95.
31. Milgrom, P. and J. Roberts (1995), ‘Complementarities and fit: strategy, structure and organizational change in manufacturing’, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 19, 179-208.
32. Miller, G.J. (1992), Managerial Dilemmas. The Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
33. Miller, D. and P.H. Friesen (1984), Organizations: A Quantum View, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
34. Mintzberg, H. (1979), The Structuring of Organizations, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
35. Ouchi, W.G. (1980), ‘Markets, bureaucracies and clans’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 25, 129-41.
36. Polos L., M.T. Hannan and G.R. Carroll (2002), ‘Foundations of a theory of social forms’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 11 (1), 85-116.
37. Pugh, D.S., D.J. Hickson, R.C. Hinings and C. Turner (1969) ‘An empirical taxonomy of structures of work organizations’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 14, 115-26.
38. Ragin, C.C. (1987), The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
39. Ragin, C.C. (2000), Fuzzy-Set Social Science, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
40. Sen, A. (1999), Commodities and Capabilities, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
41. Simon, H.A. (1978), ‘Rationality as process and as product of thought’, American Economic Review, 68 (2), 1-16.
42. Stark, D. (2007), ‘Entrepreneurship as the exploitation of uncertainty’, paper presented at the Workshop on Uncertainty: Economic Action with Partial Knowledge of the World, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia Business School, NYC, 7-8 September.
43. Thompson, J.D. (1967), Organizations in Action, New York: McGraw-Hill.
44. Van de Ven, A.H., A.L. Delbecq and R. Koenig (1976), ‘Determinants of coordination modes within organization’, American Sociology Review, 41, 322-38.
45. Von Hayek, F. (1945), ‘The use of knowledge in society’, American Economic Review, 35, 519-30.
46. Whittington, R., A. Pettigrew, S. Peck, E. Fenton and M. Conyon (1999), ‘Change and complementarities in the new competitive landscape: a European panel study, 1992-1996', Organization Science, 10 (5), 583-600.
47. Williamson, O.E. (1975), Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications, New York: The Free Press.
48. Williamson, O.E. (1991), ‘Comparative economic organizations: the analysis of discrete structural alternatives’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 36, 269-96.
49. Williamson, O.E. (2004), ‘Herbert Simon and organization theory: lessons for the theory of the firm’, in Mie Augier and James G. March (eds), Models of a Man, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 279-97.
50. Zenger, T.R. and W.S. Hesterly (1997), ‘The disaggregation of corporations: selective intervention, high powered incentives and molecular units’, Organization Science, 8 (3), 209-22.