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five configurations

 
 
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author:
Mintzberg, Henry
country:
Canada
period:
1979
type:
model
role:
consultant
activity:
analyse and design
topic:
org. design & development
abstr. level:
environment
perspective:
living
status:
final
module:
classics I
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description:

The Canadian academic, Henry Mintzberg, synthesised organisational design literature into five ideal organisational forms or configurations that do not exist in the real world, but provide consultants and managers a framework to understand and design organisational structures. Mintzberg defined organisational structure as "the sum total of the ways in which it divides its labour into distinct...

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