The elements of organizational structuring---which show a curious tendency to appear in five's---suggest a typology of five basic configurations: Simple Structure, Machine Bureaucracy, Professional Bureaucracy, Divisionalized Form, and Adhocracy. The elements include (1) five basic parts of the...

The literature on strategy formation is in large part theoretical but not empirical, and the usual definition of "strategy" encourages the notion that strategies, as we recognize them ex post facto, are deliberate plans conceived in advance of the making of specific decisions. By defining a...

Introduction to a special section devoted to strategy formulation.

Unsere Organisationswelt Unsere Gesellschaft ist, zum Guten oder zum Schlechten, eine Gesellschaft von Organi­ sationen geworden. Wir werden in Organisationen geboren, in ihnen erzogen, so daß wir später in ihnen arbeiten können. Gleichzeitig helfen und unterhalten uns die Organisatio­ nen....

The progress of management science is dependent on our understanding of the manager's working processes. A review of the literature indicates that this understanding is superficial at best. Empirical study of the work of five managers (supported by those research findings that are available) led...