Straw Men and M-Form Myths: Comment on Freeland  

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Shanley, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 102 no. 02 (Sep. 1996), page 527-536.
Topik: economic.; Organizations; M-from

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: A13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Robert Freeland in "The Myth of the M-Form? Governance, Consent, and Organizational Change" contends that efficiency-based arguments for the growth and proliferation of the multidivisional, governance structure (M-form), in particular those of transaction costs economics (TCE), neglect organization design based in voluntary consent that emerges through complex social processes in favor of an oversimplified cost minimization approach. Furthermore, new evidence on the history of General Motors (GM), an exemplary firm for M-form theorists, shows that, throughout most of its history, the structure of the firm failed to meet the theoretical requirements of the M-form. Moreover, in the brief periods when GM's structure did resemble the textbook M-form model, the firm was in decline. The conclusion drawn is that TCE approaches to organization design and governance neglect the social bases of organization and would foster economic decline rather than efficiency if they were actually adopted by firms.

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