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Online ISSN : 2432-6356
Print ISSN : 0389-570X
Informatization and Organization Design Strategies(<Special Issue>Search of a New Organization Paradigm)
Tamiki KISHIDA
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1996 Volume 16 Issue 5 Pages 35-41

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The impact of information on organization is considered in terms of organization design strategies. The development of information technology is always twofold. When it means the development of machinery to cope with the complex problems, Organization is centralized with the decreasing number of middle managemnet levels. In case that human problem solving activities are important to deal with the technological development, organization is decentralized with increasing in the number of middle management levels. In the age of informatization, the following two organization design strategies are to be identified. First is a network organization of loosely coupled system. Second is a matrix organization.
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© 1996 Japan Society for Information and Management
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