Coordination and Experimentation in M‐Form and U‐Form Organizations
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Summary
Compared to the U‐form, the M‐form organization achieves better coordination in “attribute matching” but suffers from coordination in“attribute compatibility” and less gains in specialization.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2006-04-01
- Cited by
- 203
- References
- 48
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1995497801
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1248622
Keywords
Flexibility (engineering), Compatibility (geochemistry), Organizational structure, Matching (statistics), Computer science
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