Deflating the rhetoric around “flat firms”

Journal of Organization Design - Tập 11 - Trang 15-17 - 2022
Phanish Puranam1
1INSEAD, Singapore, Singapore

Tóm tắt

Today we know a fair amount about how to flatten hierarchies of authority but not as much about when and why the attempt is worthwhile. Both designers and inhabitants of organizations may have preferences for specific ways of non-hierarchical organizing. Measuring these and designing accordingly may be an important development for the theory and practice of organization design.

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