technology typology

 
 
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author:
Thompson, James David
country:
United States
period:
1967
type:
model
role:
consultant and manager
activity:
analyse and reflect
topic:
org. design & development and technology & operations
abstr. level:
environment
perspective:
living
status:
final
module:
classics I
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By the late 1960's, the American academic, James Thompson, overcame a major limitation of Woodward's earlier technology typology by including both manufacturing and service organisations. Technology, an important factor in contingency theory, assumed that the type of technology determined an organisation's most effective internal structure. Thompson based his typology on a 2 by 2 matrix by compari...

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