Towards new organizational formsevidence from spain
- Sánchez Bueno, María José
- Suárez González, Isabel
- Pindado García, Julio (coord.)
- Payne, Gregory (coord.)
Publisher: Escuela Superior de Gestión Comercial y Marketing, ESIC
ISBN: 978-84-7356-556-1
Year of publication: 2008
Volume Title: Ponencias
Volume: 1
Pages: 14
Congress: Asociación Europea de Dirección y Economía de Empresa. Congreso Nacional (22. 2008. Salamanca)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The objective of this work is to analyze the organizational change in 100 of the largest Spanish firms (a new context) over the period 1993-2003 (a more recent time period). To achieve this purpose, we have considered both traditional organizational categories and new organizational forms (cooperative multidivisional, competitive multidivisional and the internal network). The work provides detailed definitions of the new organizational forms being developed by companies. Thus, these new organizational forms may differ in several aspects, such as the decision-making process and integration between divisions. The results show that over this period, Spanish firms experienced a steadily rising trend towards divisionalization. Likewise, we found that the cooperative multidivisional structure is the one more frequently adopted in Spain, as opposed to competitive multidivisional.