Organizations in Action¶
Thompson, J. D. (1967). Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory. McGraw-Hill.
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- Coordination
- Coordination, as Thompson (1967) framed it in his foundational analysis of organizational interdependence, is the active alignment of independently controlled actors or processes so their actions combine into a coherent collective outcome, despite distributed decision-making and incomplete shared information.
This sourceFoundational analysis of organizational interdependence (pooled, sequential, reciprocal) and the matching coordination mechanisms (standardization, plan, mutual adjustment); supports the framing of coordination as aligning interdependent actors.
- Coordination, as Thompson (1967) framed it in his foundational analysis of organizational interdependence, is the active alignment of independently controlled actors or processes so their actions combine into a coherent collective outcome, despite distributed decision-making and incomplete shared information.
- Division of Labor
- Task Interdependence
- Time
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