Littler, Craig R.; Wiesner, Retha; Dunford, Richard - In: Journal of Management Studies 40 (2003) 2, pp. 225-256
The 1990s witnessed significant changes in organizational design philosophy. Unique to the 1990s were prescriptions for restructuring involving delayering (the planned vertical compression of managerial levels of hierarchy) (Keuning and Opheij, 1994; Peters, 1992). What did this mean in practice?...