GBM-7005

Donaldson, L., & Joffe, G. (2014). Fit - the Key to organizational design. Journal of Organization Design, 3(3), 38–45.
This article can be very valuable for this assignment because it discusses organizational structure from a more practitioners’ point of view. It provides simple explanations of the link of structure to strategy, size, and characteristics of the environment, which are fundamental issues for this assignment.

Kleinknecht, R., Haq, H. U., Muller, A. R., & Kraan, K. O. (2020). An attention-based view of short-termism: The effects of organizational structure. European Management Journal, 38(2), 244–254.
This is an interesting article that discusses and tests whether there is a causal relationship between the size and complexity of an organization’s structure and management’s focus on short terms performance.

Egelhoff, W. G. (2020). How a flexible matrix structure could create ambidexterity at the macro level of large, complex organizations like MNCs. Management International Review, 3, 459.
This article discusses the concepts of a flexible matrix structure and its potential advantages for an MNE. It may be quite useful in this week’s assignment.