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John van Maanen.
Kemp, Alson R
Sloan School of Management.
Sloan School of Management
2006-07-31T15:21:26Z
2006-07-31T15:21:26Z
2005
2005
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33663
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 71).
Businesses are complex organizations with seemingly limitless interconnectedness and functionality. Organizational Charts are the limit to which many organizations consider their internal structure, while others build workflow models to identify and codify every keystroke and communique. In order to provide a middle ground between superficial Organizational Charts and elaborate workflow models, this thesis develops a simple and broadly applicable method of modeling organizations. In particular, ideas from computer program structuring are transplanted into organizational design. Initially, a theory of Organizational Elements is defined. Then characteristics common to the elements of the framework are explored and a small set of example elements is identified and developed. Finally, the framework is applied to two example organizations and recommendations for further work are presented.
by Alson Remington Kemp, III.
S.M.
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