CLIPPINGS

Abstract

Organization Distributed Being From “The Death of Hierarchical Organization” by Patrick B. Marren, senior consultant with the Futures Group. Essay to be included in 1997 Handbook of Business Strategy, Faulkner & Gray, New York. The mechanistic model of business assumed that businesses were essentially machines, and people, money, and information, as well as “hard assets,” were the components of the machine. It also assumed that management, as “operator” of the machine, could centrally control its components. These assumptions provided a fairly good approximation of reality for a very long time (indeed, the very idea of “reengineering” depends on them). But now it is apparent that the central assumptions of this model are very questionable. What could replace it?

Citation

(1996), "CLIPPINGS", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 17 No. 5, pp. 9-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039801