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A network organization to meet the challenges of complexity

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In order to meet the challenge of an ever more complex and turbulent environment, organization in the larger enterprise today runs the risk of becoming extremely complex if not unnecessarily complicated. In response to this, many make a virtue of simplicity but in doing so fall perhaps into the error of oversimplification. This article puts forward the argument for a network organization which, while retaining the advantages of simplicity, allows for an adequate response to a complex environment, especially in the management of information. Lafarge Coppée has experimented successfully with a type of organization which, by establishing links across traditional hierarchical barriers and encouraging involvement and initiative, is most likely to give the enterprise the flexibility and adaptability it needs to face the uncertain world of the nineties.

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  • Feneuille, Serge, 1990. "A network organization to meet the challenges of complexity," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 296-301, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:8:y:1990:i:3:p:296-301
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    1. Gaur, Sonjaya S. & Evanschitzky, Heiner & Ahlert, Dieter & Kolhatkar, Ajay A., 2005. "Marketing innovative service solutions with inter-organizational service networks: opportunities and threats," Working Papers 26, University of Münster, Competence Center Internet Economy and Hybrid Systems, European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS).
    2. Paul Marinescu & Sorin-George Toma & Gheorghe-Florentin Miulescu, 2018. "The perspectives of management in the era of networking expansion," Manager Journal, Faculty of Business and Administration, University of Bucharest, vol. 28(1), pages 41-46, December.

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