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Structural Trade-offs

Structural Trade-Offs is a theoretical construct in organizational architecture that denotes the inevitable compromises between competing structural imperatives—such as centralization versus decentralization, formalization versus flexibility, or efficiency versus adaptability—when designing an organization’s configuration to achieve strategic objectives.

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2017–2026

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Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design

Jan W. Rivkin, Nicolaj Siggelkow · Management Science · 2003 · 915 citations

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Optimal Structure, Market Dynamism, and the Strategy of Simple Rules

Jason P. Davis, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Christopher B. Bingham · Administrative Science Quarterly · 2009 · 788 citations

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The Architecture of Economic Systems: Hierarchies and Polyarchies

Raaj Kumar Sah, Joseph E. Stiglitz · National Bureau of Economic Research · 1984 · 667 citations · Full text

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Efficiency and Organizational Structure: A Study of Reverse LBOs

Chris J. Muscarella, Michael R. Vetsuypens · The Journal of Finance · 1990 · 420 citations

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Unbundling the corporation.

John Hagel, Marc Singer · PubMed · 1999 · 330 citations

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Authors

134

  1. PC
    Paola Conconi

    Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    3 publications · 81 citations

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  2. PL
    Patrick Legros

    Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    3 publications · 81 citations

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  3. JH
    John Hagel

    Deloitte (United States), United States

    2 publications · 350 citations

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  4. AM
    Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé

    Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  5. AL
    Ana Luiza Ferrer

    Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

    2 publications · 88 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    875 citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    375 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    37 citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    806 citations

  5. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    221 citations

  6. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    382 citations

  7. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    138 citations

  8. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    176 citations

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  1. Academy of Management Review

    AMR · 3 publications · 143 citations

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  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Repository · 2 publications · 680 citations

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 2 publications · 53 citations

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  4. The Journal of Finance

    2 publications · 488 citations

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  5. Management Science

    2 publications · 956 citations

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