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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Organization Design and Engineering for Dynamic Fit: Toward Analytic Principles, Methods and Tools
Author : Mark E. Nissen
Published in: Organization Design and Engineering
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Fit has long represented a central concept in organization design (Burns and Stalker, 1961; Donaldson, 2001; Lawrence andLorsch, 1967; Lawrence and Lorsch, 1986; Woodward, 1965). But, both research and practice alike maintain a static focus on fit, a focus that is incommensurate with the fundamentally dynamic nature of organizations and their environ- ments (Nissen and Burton, 2011). Organization designs need to address the dynamic fit, and the corresponding organizations need to be engi- neered to establish and maintain such a fit — proactively and reactively alike — over time and through both planned and unplanned change.