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Organizational complexity: Assumption, utility, and cost.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Organizational complexity: Assumption, utility, and cost./
Author:	Tang, Zhi.
Description:	452 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Louis D. Marino.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10A.
Subject:	Business Administration, Management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3236806
ISBN:	9780542912207

Organizational complexity: Assumption, utility, and cost.
Tang, Zhi.

Organizational complexity: Assumption, utility, and cost. - 452 p.

Adviser: Louis D. Marino.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Alabama, 2006.

The impact of the external environment on organizations has generally been investigated from an element perspective. An element perspective studies the organizational system by its individual elements, such as organizational goal, structure, and strategy. This dissertation, however, tries to investigate the organizational system from a dimensionality perspective, which encompasses and generalizes the characteristics of all elements and forms a limited number of holistic dimensions, such as organizational complexity, organizational dynamism, and organizational variability. This dissertation is designed as the first step in exploring the validity of this dimensionality approach by systematically studying, organizational complexity and its related issues. In this dissertation, I first propose the necessary assumptions to understand the organizational phenomena from a dimensionality approach. Based on these assumptions, I then attempt to develop a comprehensive framework of organizational complexity. This framework includes the types of organizational complexity, latent and active, the differentiation of which may help to solve the puzzles caused by the confusing empirical results in previous studies. The utilization of latent and active organizational complexity in managing environmental uncertainty is also discussed. This can be classified as two mechanisms: complexity absorption mechanism and complexity reduction mechanism. Besides the utility side of organizational complexity, the interactions between organizational complexity and the other two organizational dimensions---organizational variability and organizational dynamism---are discussed from a cost standpoint. The increase of organizational complexity may cause more internal conflict (i.e., organizational variability) and slow down the internal dynamism of a response system (i.e., organizational dynamism). Appropriate hypotheses are formed to describe the utility and cost aspects of organizational complexity. Data collected from 190 Chinese firms are analyzed and presented as the empirical evidence for the validity of complexity theory. The results are discussed and the implications for future research and practice are presented.

ISBN: 9780542912207Subjects--Topical Terms:

626628
Business Administration, Management.

Organizational complexity: Assumption, utility, and cost.
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