2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Developing an Organization Design Approach That Takes Unintended Consequences into Consideration
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14530138
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
NUMAGAMI Tsuyoshi Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Professor, 大学院・商学研究科, 教授 (80208280)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | organization design / strategy for organizing / decentralization / Japanese organizations / system of action / unintended consequences |
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| Research Abstract |
The findings of this research are twofold. First, this research has been a methodological development of my prior research on epistemology of organizational reality. In the book, entitled Toward an Action Theory of Management, the author argued that we should look at business organizations and their environments as a system of actions rather than that of variables. Project Number 14530138 aimed at developing this viewpoint in the field of organization design. In addition, the project also aimed at obtaining a new perspective on organization design that takes into consideration unintended consequences of organization members, which is the central feature of social system of actions. Some of the important findings are as follows.
(1)The situation that organization members perceive their organizations as "too heavy" in order for them to coordinate with each other would be exacerbated if an organization designer emphasizes structural empowerment, even though it would be a "natural" response
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to that situation. What would be needed in that situation may be re-centralization of authority.
(2)Liaison officer may be a hazardous organizational device when two interdependent departments are in need of coordination. Two departments, being coordinated by a self-interested coordinator who positions himself (herself) in between the two conflicting parties, are likely to be much worse off.
(3)Emphasizing rule enforcement after a serious organizational accident and crime may be detrimental to the organization's flexibility and its healthy development afterwards. Rule may drive itself and evolve into too much complicated rule systems.
All of these findings are derived from the organizational reality that prevailed in the Japanese companies in recent ten years. This realistic aspect is the second important point of this research. Recent reorganizations of the Japanese companies lacked insights into the unintended consequences of intendedly rational organizational change, and have exacerbated many organizational problems. Less
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Research Products
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[Book] 組織デザイン2004
Author(s)
沼上 幹
Total Pages
308
Publisher
日本経済新聞社
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Book] Innovative Forms of Organizing2003
Author(s)
Pettigrew, A.M., Richard Whittington, Leif Melin, Carlos Sanchez-RUnde, Frans A.Van Den Bosch, Tsuyoshi Numagami
Total Pages
411
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Book] Innovative Forms of Organizing.2003
Author(s)
Pettigrew, A.M., Richard Whittington, Leif Melin, Carlos Sanchez-Runde, Frans A.Van Den Bosch, Tsuyoshi Numagami
Publisher
London : Sage
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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