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Strategy and structure: a case study of the implications of strategic planning for organizational structure and management practice
Abstract
A general management maxim holds that, as a principle of organizational design, "structure follows strategy." Precisely how change in strategy leads to structural redesign and what structural options are available to the manager remain unclear. In pursuing these questions, a discussion examines closely one social services agency that developed a strategic planning process and, as a result of a change in strategy, introduced a new organizational structure. The experience of this agency contains lessons for all managers who foresee environmental shifts and demographic changes in agency clientele and who search for ways to respond. (Journal abstract, edited.)
Journal
(1986)
vol10
no2
pages53-66
Categories
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Financial Management
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Strategic Planning
