Organizational Structure and Process: Literature Review
Organizational structure and processes has the ability in determining the success of the practices of open innovation and thereby, this theme clearly justifies more awareness from the organizational managers. Adaptation of organizations has been a topic that has established restricted and uneven theoretical conduct. Any attempt that has been made in examining the organizational alteration is intricate, as the overall process is highly multifaceted and unpredictable.
This report was taken into account where the projected structure tackles with the unusual ways in which organizations classify their strategies related to product market and create mechanisms like structures and processes in pursuit of the strategies. The report deals with incorporation of the literature existing over the database and the studies conducted in four of the industries namely electronics, food processing, health care and publishing of text books.
This report takes in various issues related to administration, engineering and entrepreneurship and theories connected with the strategy of the organization and its structure. It has been stated that organizations are restricted in their selection of adaptive behavior which the top level management believes would facilitate the efficient direction and human resource control (Langley et al. 2013).
Business Structure and Process: Innovation
The topic of business process innovation reviews the existing relationship between the innovation of the organization and that of technological capabilities, monitoring their impact on the performance of the firm through the use of the resource-based outlook of the theoretical structure.
This report is based on the empirical confirmation from a survey conducted over 144 industrial firms existing in Spain along with sculpting of certain structural equations using the fractional least square. The result of this research study confirms the fact that innovation in organization process favors the improvement in the competence of technological innovation. According to Camisón and Villar-López (2014), it signifies the fact that innovation in the organizational structure and process along with the technological capabilities for the products leads to bigger performance of firms.
Organizational Structure and Process for Competitiveness:
A budding multi-dimensional advancement to the design of the organization sketches the requirement for the arrangement of related structural and procedure facets of the organization. However, neither the interface of the facets nor their responsibility and significance for the competitiveness of organizations has been properly monitored in the literature.
This paper takes in the investigation of the relationship between the structural and development distinctiveness of the design of organizations in determining the ways and the extent to which these distinctiveness throws in attaining a competitive advantage. According to Hernaus, Aleksi? and Klindzic (2013), a survey was conducted on 134 Croatian organizations with the findings of the research outlining the requirement for new designs of organization advancement emphasizing both the horizontal and vertical measurement of solutions in designs.
Organizational Structure and Process: Business Process Capabilities and Knowledge Management
This report was taken into account in aiming towards defining a form in properly evaluating the value of knowledge management (KM). Empirical studies previously conducted have found limited or no development in the performance of the organization. According to Wu and Chen (2014), the performance that is KM driven is entrenched in knowledge based resources mediated by the capabilities of organizational processes. Organizational structure that is learning based is significantly corresponding KM for being the arbitrator to the resources of knowledge. The key implication of this research study is that an organization might own significant resources of knowledge within the industry, however dedicating its endeavor in the development of business procedure for attainment of final act is important.
Business Structure and Process: Structural alteration
Organizational change can be defined as the structure for handling the impact of the processes of new business units, modifications within the structure of the organization or the changes within workplace culture of companies. The video of Sommerfeldt (2017) focuses on the ways organizational change can take place and the difficulty that lies within for an organization to change in order to survive.
Reference:
Camisón, C. and Villar-López, A., 2014. Organizational innovation as an enabler of technological innovation capabilities and firm performance. Journal of business research, 67(1), pp.2891-2902.
Hernaus, T., Aleksi?, A. and Klindzic, M., 2013. Organizing for competitiveness-Structural and process characteristics of organizational design.
Langley, A., Smallman, C., Tsoukas, H. and Van de Ven, A.H., 2013. Process studies of change in organization and management: Unveiling temporality, activity, and flow. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), pp.1-13.
Sommerfeldt, P. 2017. Change Management - Unit 1: Organizational Change. YouTube. Retrieved 8 August 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWORFliXxn0
Wu, I.L. and Chen, J.L., 2014. Knowledge management driven firm performance: The roles of business process capabilities and organizational learning. Journal of Knowledge Management, 18(6), pp.1141-1164.
