ADOPTION AND ABANDONMENT OF MATRIX MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS - EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: BURNS, LR; WHOLEY, DR
• 署名单位: Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256514
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 106-138
• 关键词: HOSPITAL ADOPTION; FORMAL-STRUCTURE; INNOVATION; performance; diffusion; schools; inertia; SPREAD; REFORM; MODEL

摘要

Organizational design theorists argue that organizations adopt matrix (departmentalized) structures for technical reasons, to solve problems of internal coordination and information processing. Research on interorganizational networks suggests that organizations adopt new structures because of mimetic forces and normative pressures. We examined the effects of both sets of factors on the adoption of matrix management in a group of hospitals. Multivariate analyses revealed that matrix adoption is influenced not only by task diversity, but also by sociometric location, the dissemination of information, and the cumulative force of adoption in interorganizational networks. Such variables exert little influence on decisions to abandon matrix programs, however.