Some have to,and some want to: Why firms adopt a post-industrial form |
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Authors: | Chris R. Meyer David G. Cohen Sudhir Nair |
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Affiliation: | 1.Gabelli School of Business,Fordham University,New York,USA;2.Department of Management and Business,Skidmore College,Saratoga Springs,USA;3.Peter B. Gustavson School of Business,University of Victoria,Victoria,Canada |
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Abstract: | A number of organizational scholars have suggested that to compete in a “post-industrial” world firms must adopt specific structures and approaches to managing. In this article, we explore the why of post-industrial forms, as opposed to the what. Often work in this literature speaks as though in the future only a post-industrial form will allow firms to compete successfully. We argue instead that adoption of a post-industrial form is a contingency: some firms have to operate in this fashion, some firms may want to, and some firms never will adopt a post-industrial form. Based on Thompson’s (Organizations in action, Transaction, New Brunswick, 1967) conception of production processes, we suggest factors that, if present, require firms to be post-industrial as well as strategies that make them want to adopt this relatively new form. |
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