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Article: The use of organizational design features in purchasing and supply management.
- Article from:
- Journal of Supply Chain Management
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Of the myriad ways organizations pursue competitive advantage in their supply management efforts, the most common are outsourcing, supplier development or strategic alliances and partnerships. Rarely mentioned, however, is the more mundane topic of organizational design. Except for cross-functional teaming, organizational design has received limited attention from supply management researchers.
Organizational design is a broad concept referring to the process of assessing and selecting the structure and formal system of communication, division of labor, coordination, control, authority and responsibility required to achieve an organization's goals (Hamel and ...