"Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is accomplished by establishing sets of rules from ""real world"" organization contexts. Moreover, the development of these rules within ""real world""...

It is argued that the efficiency of an organization structure is determined by how well it fits into the culture in which it is set. What a fit is, and what makes it good or bad is discussed in terms of those decision rules and rewards in organizations that make them efficient in the context of...

Organization theory is a positive science; organizational design is a normative science "concerned with how things ought to be, with devising structures to attain goals." The Organizational Consultant is a knowledge base expert system to help design organizations. That is, it takes facts about the...

Culture is defined in terms of components and parts. The logical nature of the components and of the connections between them are identified and analyzed. These connections are used as a basis for the argument that there is a meaningful concept of the fit between the components of the...