Organization Structure and Technology in Manufacturing: System Versus Work Flow Level Perspectives
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 23 (1) , 61-77
- https://doi.org/10.5465/255496
Abstract
This paper distinguishes between system level and work flow level measures of organizational technology and structure. Data from 20 manufacturing plants support the hypothesis that system level technology (technological change and computerization of support functions) tends to be primarily related to system level structural variables. Work flow level technology (degree of mass production) tends to be related primarily to work flow level structural measures.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Parkinson Revisited: A Component Analysis of the Use of Staff Specialists in Manufacturing OrganizationsHuman Relations, 1979
- Size, Technology, Environment and the Structure of OrganizationsAcademy of Management Review, 1977
- Dimensions of Organizational Technology and Structure: An Exploratory StudyHuman Relations, 1977
- WOODWARD, TECHNOLOGY, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE — A CRITIQUE OF THE UNIVERSAL GENERALIZATIONJournal of Management Studies, 1976
- Technology and Organization Structure as Theoretical CategoriesAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1976
- Organizational StructureAnnual Review of Sociology, 1975
- Environment, Technology, and the Administrative Intensity of Manufacturing OrganizationsAmerican Sociological Review, 1973
- Parkinson's Progress: Accounting for the Number of Specialists in OrganizationsAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1973
- Effects of Size, Complexity, and Ownership on Administrative IntensityAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1969
- Technology and the Structure of OrganizationsAmerican Sociological Review, 1968