The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Organizational Technology and Organizational Structure
Abstract
Contrary to impressions that might be obtained from the literature on technology and structure, there is not a great deal of reliable evidence that the social structure of organizations is strongly affected by technology. The present research finds a very weak relationship between technological manageability and subordinate participation in decision making. When the conceptualization of technology is expanded to include more than manageability, a moderate relationship with participativeness emerges. No support is found for the hypothesis that the effectiveness of an organization is determined by the consonance between its technology and its social structure. Technology and structure are both multidimensional concepts that cannot be expected to be related in a simple manner. Future research on the determinants of most dimensions of social structure in organizations should probably emphasize independent variables other than technological characteristics.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
A multimethod examination of the benefits and detriments of intragroup conflict
Jehn, K. A. (1995) · Administrative Science Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2393638 · Cited by 4,050
Determinants of Coordination Modes within Organizations
Ven, A. H. V. D., Delbecq, A. L., & Koenig, R. (1976) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2094477 · Cited by 1,979
Burkhardt, M. E., & Brass, D. J. (1990) · Administrative Science Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2393552 · Cited by 947
Leonardi, P. M., & Barley, S. R. (2010) · Academy of Management Annals · doi:10.5465/19416521003654160 · Cited by 733
Measures of Perrow 's Work Unit Technology: An Empirical Assessment and a New Scale.
Withey, M., Daft, R. L., & Cooper, W. H. (1983) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.2307/256134 · Cited by 361
Narayanan, S., Jayaraman, V., Luo, Y., & Swaminathan, J. M. (2011) · Journal of Operations Management · doi:10.1016/j.jom.2010.05.001 · Cited by 202
Metadata
- Authors
- Mohr, L. B.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1971-12
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 444
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2025536255
- Cited by
- 313
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 20.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
