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THE STRUCTURE OF NON‐INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Author(s) -
Pym Bridget A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1971.tb00838.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , simplicity , manufacturing engineering , industrial engineering , manufacturing , computer science , business , operations management , industrial organization , engineering , marketing , systems engineering , epistemology , philosophy
O rganization structure is determined by the interaction of several variables. Woodward's work suggested that technology is one of the most important and this study attempts to extend her findings from the industrial to the non‐manufacturing sphere. The results show that structure does relate to task within the non‐manufacturing group — but that taken as a whole the structures of the non‐manufacturing group differ from all those Woodward found in manufacture. Some of these differences are seen to derive from the relative simplicity of the non‐manufacturing technology. Others can be traced to the operation of intervening variables.